Enhancing the open circuit voltage of dye sensitized solar cells by surface engineering of silica particles in a gel electrolyte

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 1, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 10142-10147

  Etgar, Lioz ^a,b   Schuchardt, Guillaume ^b   Costenaro, Daniele ^c   Carniato, Fabio ^c   Bisio, Chiara ^c   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^b   Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K ^b   Marchese, Leonardo ^c   Graetzel, Michael ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; IONIC LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; MODIFIED SILICA PARTICLES; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SILICA PARTICLES; SURFACE ENGINEERING;

IONIC LIQUIDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLID ELECTROLYTES;

SILICA;

EID: 84881630172     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3ta11436h     Document Type: Article

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