Development of nanopatterned fluorine-doped tin oxide electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells with improved light trapping

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1565-1572

  Wang, Fengli ^a   Subbaiyan, Navaneetha K ^b   Wang, Qian ^a,c   Rochford, Caitlin ^a   Xu, Guowei ^a   Lu, Rongtao ^a   Elliot, Alan ^a   D'souza, Francis ^b   Hui, Rongqing ^a,c   Wu, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; fluorine doped tin oxide; light scattering; nanoimprint lithography; nanopatterned transparent conductors; photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; NANO-IMPRINT; PHOTOVOLTAIC; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84859152166     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am201760q     Document Type: Article

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