Determining the conductivities of the two charge transport phases in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells by impedance spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 10980-10989

  Li, Feng ^a   Jennings, James Robert ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Chua, Julianto ^b   Mathews, Nripan ^b   Mhaisalkar, Subodh G ^b   Moon, Soo Jin ^c   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^c   Grätzel, Michael ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; CHARGE COLLECTION; ELECTRON DIFFUSION LENGTH; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; HOLE TRANSPORTING; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

HOLE MOBILITY; SOLAR CELLS;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84878373736     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4030188     Document Type: Article

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