Simulation of dye solar cells: Through and beyond one dimension

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 424-436

  Gagliardi, Alessio ^a   Der Maur, Matthias Auf ^a   Gentilini, Desiree ^a   Di Carlo, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drift diffusion; Dye sensitized solar cells; Electrochemistry; Finite element methods; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

1-D SIMULATION; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; DRIFT DIFFUSION; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYE SOLAR CELLS; LIFE SPAN; MESOPOROUS TITANIUM DIOXIDE; MULTI-TRAPPING; ONE DIMENSION; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SMALL AREA;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; OPTICAL FIBERS; POISSON EQUATION; SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84855968700     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-011-0377-4     Document Type: Article

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