The influence of anatase-rutile mixed phase and ZnO blocking layer on dye-sensitized solar cells based on TiO2nanofiberphotoanodes

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Ding, Jianning ^a,b   Li, Yan ^a   Hu, Hongwei ^a   Bai, Li ^a   Zhang, Shuai ^a,b   Yuan, Ningyi ^a,b  

^a CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Solar Cell Materials and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Anatase rutile mixed phase; Atomic layer deposition method; Dye sensitized solar cell; Titanium dioxide nanofiber photoanode; Zinc oxide blocking layer

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; METALLIC FILMS; NANOFIBERS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; SINTERING; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

BLOCKING LAYERS; ELECTRON DIFFUSION LENGTH; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INTENSITY MODULATED PHOTOCURRENT SPECTROSCOPY (IMPS); INTENSITY MODULATED PHOTOVOLTAGE SPECTROSCOPIES (IMVS); MIXED PHASE; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-ELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84875139533     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-9     Document Type: Article

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