A comparative study on properties of two phenoxazine-based dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-73

  Tan, Haijun ^a   Pan, Chunyue ^a   Wang, Gang ^a   Wu, Yingying ^a   Zhang, Yiping ^a   Yu, Guipeng ^a   Zhang, Min ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Alkyl chain; Conjugated direction; Dye sensitized solar cells; Phenoxazine; Phenyl ring; Photovoltaic performances

Indexed keywords

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ALKYL CHAIN; CONJUGATED DIRECTION; PHENOXAZINE; PHENYL RINGS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84885488558     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.09.039     Document Type: Article

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