First principles design of dye molecules with ullazine donor for dye sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3772-3778

  Feng, Jie ^a   Jiao, Yang ^a   Ma, Wei ^a   Nazeeruddin, Md K ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^b   Meng, Sheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; EFFICIENCY; MOLECULES; OXIDE MINERALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BRIDGE MOLECULE; DONOR GROUPS; DYE MOLECULE; FIRST PRINCIPLES; LIGHT-HARVESTING; NUMBER OF ELECTRONS; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; TIME-DEPENDENT DFT;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84874621761     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp310504n     Document Type: Article

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