Enhanced photovoltaic performance of nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells based on coaxial TiO2@TiO Heterostructures with a cobalt(II/III) redox electrolyte

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 5, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 9872-9877

  Fan, Jiandong ^a   Fàbrega, Cristian ^a   Zamani, Reza R ^a,c   Hao, Yan ^d   Parra, Andres ^a   Andreu, Teresa ^a   Arbiol, Jordi ^c,e   Boschloo, Gerrit ^d   Hagfeldt, Anders ^d   Morante, Joan Ramon ^a,b   Cabot, Andreu ^a,b  

^a CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

cobalt(II III) electrolyte; dye sensitized solar cells; electrochemical deposition; hydrothermal deposition; nanowires

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COBALT DEPOSITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION; ELECTROLYTES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; OXIDE MINERALS; REDUCTION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CARRIER SEPARATION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITION; HYDROTHERMALLY; NANOWIRES (NWS); PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REDOX ELECTROLYTES; TWO-STEP PROCESS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

COBALT; COLORING AGENT; ELECTROLYTE; ION; NANOWIRE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHEMISTRY; LETTER; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COBALT; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROLYTES; IONS; NANOWIRES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84886786311     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am402344d     Document Type: Article

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