Architectural influence of carbazole push-pull-pull dyes on dye sensitized solar cells

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 787-797

  Keerthi, Ashok ^a   Sriramulu, Deepa ^a   Liu, Yeru ^a   Yuan Timothy, Chan Thuang ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Valiyaveettil, Suresh ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbazole dyes; Cyclic voltammetry; Donor acceptor; Dye sensitized solar cells; Frontier orbitals; HOMO LUMO; Organic dyes

Indexed keywords

DONOR-ACCEPTORS; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FRONTIER ORBITALS; HOMO-LUMO; ORGANIC DYE;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; MOLECULES; SOLAR CELLS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 84882484919     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.07.002     Document Type: Article

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