Enhancing the efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells with an SnO 2 blocking layer grown by nanocluster deposition

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 561, Issue , 2013, Pages 206-210

  Duong, Thanh Tung ^a   Choi, Hyung Jin ^a   He, Qi Jin ^b   Le, Anh Tuan ^c   Yoon, Soon Gil ^a  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c B1 Building   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Low temperature processing; Nanocluster deposition; Solar energy conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEPOSITION; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOCLUSTERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; THICK FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BLOCKING LAYERS; CONTACT AREAS; ELECTRON MOVEMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCESSING; NANOCLUSTER DEPOSITION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84874630777     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2013.01.188     Document Type: Article

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