Phenothiazine-sensitized organic solar cells: Effect of dye anchor group positioning on the cell performance

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5813-5820

  Hart, Aaron S ^a   Chandra Bikram, K C ^a   Subbaiyan, Navaneetha K ^a   Karr, Paul A ^b   D'Souza, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

impedance spectroscopy; light energy conversion; organic solar cell; phenothiazine; photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ENERGY CONVERSION; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHENOTHIAZINE; PHOTOVOLTAIC;

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; INSECTICIDES; SPECTROSCOPY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

COLORING AGENT; PHENOTHIAZINE; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY;

COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHENOTHIAZINES; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84870519758     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am3014407     Document Type: Article

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