Pore filling of spiro-OMeTAD in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells determined via optical reflectometry

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 5010-5019

  Docampo, Pablo ^a   Hey, Andrew ^a   Guldin, Stefan ^b   Gunning, Robert ^a   Steiner, Ullrich ^b   Snaith, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hole transporters; pore filling; reflectometry; refractive indexes; solid state

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUENT MATERIALS; DETAILED MODELS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM APPROXIMATION; ELECTRON LIFETIME; HOLE-TRANSPORTERS; INDIRECT METHODS; MESOPOROUS; NONDESTRUCTIVE METHODS; OPTICAL REFLECTOMETRY; OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; PHOTOCURRENT DECAY; PORE FILLING; RECOMBINATION LIFETIME; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; REFLECTOMETRY; REFRACTIVE INDEX DETERMINATION; REFRACTIVE INDEXES; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SPIROBIFLUORENE; TRANSPORT KINETIC;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR CELLS;

FILLING;

EID: 84870623729     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201201223     Document Type: Article

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