Fabrication of flexible dye-sensitised solar cells with titanium dioxide thin films based on screen-printing technique

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1162-1165

  Hu, Jui En ^a   Yang, Shu Ying ^b   Chou, Jung Chuan ^a   Shih, Po Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; FLEXIBLE DYE-SENSITISED SOLAR CELLS; INTERNAL RESISTANCE; PARALLEL INTERCONNECTION; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE THIN FILM; TITANIUM DIOXIDES (TIO2); WORKING ELECTRODE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; OXIDES; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

THIN FILMS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLS; ELECTRODE; FILM; FLEXIBLE DYE SENSITISED SOLAR CELL;

EID: 84878349182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2012.0529     Document Type: Article

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