Dye-sensitized solar cell with integrated triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion system

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2073-2078

  Nattestad, Andrew ^a   Cheng, Yuen Yap ^b   Macqueen, Rowan W ^b   Schulze, Tim F ^b,c   Thompson, Fletcher W ^a   Mozer, Attila J ^a   Fückel, Burkhard ^b   Khoury, Tony ^b   Crossley, Maxwell J ^b   Lips, Klaus ^c   Wallace, Gordon G ^a   Schmidt, Timothy W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

DSC; efficiency; figure of merit; photochemical upconversion; solar cell; sub bandgap excitation

Indexed keywords

DSC; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; FIGURE OF MERITS; PHOTON UP CONVERSIONS; SUB-BANDGAP; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ANNIHILATION; UP-CONVERSION;

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84879763896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401050u     Document Type: Article

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