Recent progress and the status of dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) technology with state-of-the-art conversion efficiencies

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 119, Issue , 2013, Pages 291-295

  Upadhyaya, Hari M ^a   Senthilarasu, S ^a   Hsu, Min Hung ^a   Kumar, D Kishore ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dye sensitised; Dyes; Mesoporous; Pervoskites; Solid state

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; DYE-SENSITISED SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY INCREASE; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; MESOPOROUS; PERVOSKITES; SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY; STRUCTURE INNOVATION;

DYEING; EFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84884905354     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.08.031     Document Type: Article

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