Enhanced light harvesting in dye-sensitized solar cells coupled with titania nanotube photonic crystals: A theoretical study

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 5, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 13022-13028

  Guo, Min ^a   Yong, Zehui ^a   Xie, Keyu ^a   Lin, Jia ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Huang, Haitao ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Light harvesting; Photocurrent; Photonic bandgap; Photonic crystal; TiO2 nanotube

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TIO;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; HARVESTING; LIGHT; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NANOTUBE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; PHOTON; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTUBES; PHOTONS; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84891430467     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am4039213     Document Type: Article

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