Enhancing the performance of front-illuminated dye-sensitized solar cells with highly [001] oriented, single-crystal-like TiO2 nanotube arrays

Ceramics International

Volumn 40, Issue 1 PART A, 2014, Pages 173-180

  Yang, Zuobao ^a   Ma, Zhongquan ^a   Pan, Dengyu ^a   Chen, Dongsheng ^a   Xu, Fei ^a   Chen, Shumin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Front illuminated; Single crystal like

Indexed keywords

ANODIC OXIDATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; YARN;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; FRONT-ILLUMINATED; INTERPLANAR DISTANCE; PHOTO-ANODES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84887625565     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2013.05.119     Document Type: Article

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