Blue-coloured highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells by implementing the diketopyrrolopyrrole chromophore

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yum, Jun Ho ^a   Holcombe, Thomas W ^a   Kim, Yongjoo ^a,b   Rakstys, Kasparas ^a,c   Moehl, Thomas ^a   Teuscher, Joel ^a   Delcamp, Jared H ^a,d   Nazeeruddin, Mohammed K ^a   Grätzel, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Dongjin Semichem Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^c KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORING AGENT; POLYMER; POLYPYRROLE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; RADIATION RESPONSE;

COLOR; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; POLYMERS; PYRROLES; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84882804934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02446     Document Type: Article

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