Optimum oxide thickness for dye-sensitized solar cells-effect of porosity and porous size. A numerical approach

Ionics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 571-576

  Joshi, P H ^a   Korfiatis, D P ^b   Potamianou, S F ^b   Thoma, K A T ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Modeling; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; HIGH-K DIELECTRIC; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; POISSON EQUATION; POROSITY; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EFFECTIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; ITERATION PROCEDURE; LIGHT ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; METAL SEMICONDUCTORS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PHOTO-ELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84874298760     PISSN: 09477047     EISSN: 18620760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11581-012-0755-3     Document Type: Article

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