Controllable synthesis of rutile TiO2 nanorod array, nanoflowers and microspheres directly on fluorine-doped tin oxide for dye-sensitised solar cells

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 826-830

  Xu, Fang ^a,b   Wu, Yao ^b   Zhang, Xuyan ^b   Gao, Zhiyong ^a,b   Jiang, Kai ^a,b  

^a Engineering Technology Research Centre of Motive Power   (China)

^b HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLABLE SYNTHESIS; DYE-SENSITISED SOLAR CELLS; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; HIGH-RESOLUTION TEM; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; NANOFLOWERS FILM; NANOROD ARRAYS; PHOTOANODE; PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; ROUGH SURFACES; RUTILE TIO; SCANNING ELECTRONS; TIO; VOLUME RATIO;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MICROSPHERES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFLOWERS; NANORODS; OXIDE MINERALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIN; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SOLAR CELLS;

COPPER; FLUORINE; MICROSPHERE; NANOFILM; NANOPARTICLE; NANOROD; STAINLESS STEEL; TIN OXIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ENERGY RESOURCE; NANOANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84865970305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2012.0398     Document Type: Article

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