Enhanced performance of low-cost dye-sensitized solar cells with pulse-electropolymerized polyaniline counter electrodes

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages 468-474

  Xiao, Yaoming ^a,b   Lin, Jeng Yu ^b   Wang, Wei Yan ^b   Tai, Sheng Yen ^b   Yue, Gentian ^a,b   Wu, Jihuai ^a  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TATUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Counter electrode; Dye sensitized solar cell; Polyaniline; Pulse electropolymerization

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; COUNTER ELECTRODES; CYCLIC VOLTAMMOGRAMS; DURATION TIME; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL STABILITIES; FLUORINATED TIN OXIDES; GLASS SUBSTRATES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; POLYANILINES (PANI); POTENTIOSTATICS; PULSE PARAMETER; PULSE POTENTIOSTATIC ELECTROPOLYMERIZATION; SERIES RESISTANCES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COSTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROPOLYMERIZATION; NANOFIBERS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLATINUM; POLYANILINE; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; TIN OXIDES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84872131627     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2012.12.055     Document Type: Article

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