Improvement of light-harvesting efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells using silica beads embedded in a TiO2 nanoporous structure

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Rho, Yoonsoo ^a   Wanit, Manorotkul ^a   Yeo, Junyeob ^a   Hong, Sukjoon ^a   Han, Seungyong ^a   Choi, Jun Ho ^b,d   Hong, Won Hwa ^b   Lee, Dongjin ^c   Ko, Seung Hwan ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; BEAD SIZE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MIE THEORY; NANOPOROUS STRUCTURES; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; SCATTERING EFFECTS; SCATTERING PARTICLES; SCATTERING PHENOMENON; SILICA BEADS; SIZE CONTROLLABILITY; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; SPHERICAL SHAPE; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TIO; TITANIA; TOTAL CROSS SECTION;

EXPERIMENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SCATTERING; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SILICA;

EID: 84871332497     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/46/2/024006     Document Type: Article

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