Interplay between transparency and efficiency in dye sensitized solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3235-3242

  Tagliaferro, Roberto ^a   Colonna, Daniele ^a   Brown, Thomas M ^a   Reale, Andrea ^a   Di Carlo, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSPARENCY;

CO-SENSITIZATION; DYE LOADING; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE SOLAR CELLS; FABRICATION PARAMETERS; IN-BUILDINGS; NANO-CRYSTALLINE TIO; SINGLE DYE; TIO;

LOADING;

COLORING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLORING AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84874065615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003235     Document Type: Article

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