Unraveling the function of an MgO interlayer in both electrolyte and solid-state SnO 2 based dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 22840-22846

  Docampo, Pablo ^a   Tiwana, Priti ^a   Sakai, Nobuya ^b   Miura, Hidetoshi ^c   Herz, Laura ^a   Murakami, Takurou ^b   Snaith, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TOIN UNIVERSITY OF YOKOHAMA   (Japan)

^c Chemicrea Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION BAND EDGE; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DIELECTRIC INTERLAYERS; DIELECTRIC SHELLS; DYE SENSITIZED; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; INTERFACIAL DESIGN; LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; MESOPOROUS; MESOPOROUS METAL OXIDES; MGO; MGO SHELLS; PHOTO-ELECTRODES; PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER; PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRONS; REDOX POTENTIALS; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SOLID-STATE CELLS; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; SURFACE PASSIVATION; THICK DIELECTRICS;

DYES; ELECTROLYTES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; REDOX REACTIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84868125089     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp305727j     Document Type: Article

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