Neutral, polaron, and bipolaron states in pedot prepared by photoelectrochemical polymerization and the effect on charge generation mechanism in the solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 22484-22491

  Park, Byung Wook ^a   Yang, Lei ^a   Johansson, Erik M J ^a   Vlachopoulos, Nick ^a   Chams, Amani ^b   Perruchot, Christian ^b   Jouini, Mohamed ^b   Boschloo, Gerrit ^a   Hagfeldt, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE GENERATION; DYE REGENERATION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON LIFETIME; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; POLYMER DEPOSITION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; POLARONS; POLYMERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84889814233     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp406493v     Document Type: Article

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