Effect of nuclear vibrations, temperature, and orientation on injection and recombination conditions in amino-phenyl acid dyes on TiO 2

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8438, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Manzhos, Sergei ^a   Segawa, Hiroshi ^a   Yamashita, Koichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Electonic structure; Molecular dynamics; Organic dye

Indexed keywords

ACID DYE; ADSORPTION GEOMETRIES; CONDUCTION-BAND MINIMUM; DONOR GROUPS; DRIVING FORCES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; INJECTION RATES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NUCLEAR MOTIONS; NUCLEAR VIBRATIONS; ORGANIC DYE; OXIDE SURFACE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIO; TITANIA;

ADSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 84861929355     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.921133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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