A nonconjugated bridge in dimer-sensitized solar cells retards charge recombination without decreasing charge injection efficiency

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 10824-10829

  Sunahara, Kenji ^a   Griffith, Matthew J ^b   Uchiyama, Takayuki ^a   Wagner, Pawel ^b   Officer, David L ^b   Wallace, Gordon G ^b   Mozer, Attila J ^b   Mori, Shogo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

dispersion force; electron injection; electron lifetime; porphyrin; recombination

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION FORCE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON LIFETIME; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; RECOMBINATION; SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIMERS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRON INJECTION; ELECTRONS; MONOMERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PORPHYRINS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84887576682     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am403022d     Document Type: Article

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