Is dye mixture more suitable rather than single dye to fabricate dye sensitized solar cell?

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7735-7743

  Bhattacharya, Sudeshna ^a   Mandal, Gopa ^a   Dutta, Mrinal ^a   Basak, Durga ^a   Ganguly, Tapan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Hydrogen bond; Photon to current conversion efficiency; Semiconductor nanoparticles; Static quenching; Time resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; H-BONDING; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; RHODAMINE 6G; RHODAMINE B; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE DYE; STATIC QUENCHING; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE FLUORESCENCES; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; TIO; XANTHENE DYES; ZNO ELECTRODES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GROUND STATE; HYDROGEN BONDS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTONS; PORPHYRINS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84856846621     PISSN: 15334880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2011.5115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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