Effect of the preparation procedure on the morphology of thin TiO 2 films and their device performance in small-molecule bilayer hybrid solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5997-6004

  Unger, Eva L ^a,d   Spadavecchia, Francesca ^b   Nonomura, Kazuteru ^a,e   Palmgren, Pål ^c,f   Cappelletti, Giuseppe ^b   Hagfeldt, Anders ^a   Johansson, Erik M J ^a   Boschloo, Gerrit ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f VG Scienta AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

hybrid solar cells; small molecule semiconductor; spin casting; spray pyrolysis; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTOR LAYERS; ANATASE TITANIA; BI-LAYER; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CONDUCTING GLASS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DYE LAYERS; FILM MORPHOLOGY; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LAYER THICKNESS; NANOPOROUS TIO; NANOPOROUS TITANIA; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PREPARATION METHOD; PREPARATION PROCEDURES; SMALL MOLECULES; SPIN-CASTING; TIO; TITANIA; TITANIUM DIOXIDE FILMS;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; METALLIC FILMS; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDES; SOLAR CELLS; SPRAY PYROLYSIS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

FILM PREPARATION;

NANOMATERIAL; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84870554272     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am301604x     Document Type: Article

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