Anti-recombination organic dyes containing dendritic triphenylamine moieties for high open-circuit voltage of DSSCs

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-81

  Zhang, Hai ^a   Fan, Jie ^b   Iqbal, Zafar ^a   Kuang, Dai Bin ^b   Wang, Lingyun ^a   Cao, Derong ^a   Meier, Herbert ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Non planar; Open circuit voltage; Recombination; Sensitizer; Triphenylamine

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; NON-PLANAR; RECOMBINATION; SENSITIZER; TRIPHENYL AMINES;

PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

EID: 84884588129     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.04.023     Document Type: Article

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