Hole transport materials with low glass transition temperatures and high solubility for application in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1455-1462

  Leijtens, Tomas ^a   Ding, I Kang ^a   Giovenzana, Tommaso ^a   Bloking, Jason T ^a   McGehee, Michael D ^a   Sellinger, Alan ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

organic hole transport materials; organic photovoltaics; solid state dye sensitized solar cells

Indexed keywords

CONTROL DEVICE; DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HIGH SOLUBILITY; HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIALS; LOW MELTING POINT; MESOPOROUS TITANIA; ORGANIC HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIALS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PORE FILLING; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SENSITIZING DYE; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SOLUBILITY;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84857737160     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204296b     Document Type: Article

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