Molecular approaches to solar energy conversion: The energetic cost of charge separation from molecular-excited states

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1996, 2013, Pages

  Durrant, James R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized; Molecular materials; Organic solar cells; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXCITED STATES; SEPARATION; SOLAR CELLS;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CHARGE-SEPARATED STATE; DYE SENSITIZED; MOLECULAR MATERIALS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL SOLAR CELL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTRES; SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 84880072228     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0195     Document Type: Review

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