Toward antimony selenide sensitized solar cells: Efficient charge photogeneration at spiro -OMeTAD/Sb 2Se 3/metal oxide heterojunctions

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1351-1356

  Guijarro, Néstor ^a,b   Lutz, Thierry ^a   Lana Villarreal, Teresa ^b   O'Mahony, Flannan ^a   Gómez, Roberto ^b   Haque, Saif A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY SELENIDE; CHARGE PHOTOGENERATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOPOROUS TIO; METAL CHALCOGENIDE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER-GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

METALLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84862103114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3004365     Document Type: Article

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