Photovoltaic performance of dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated with polyvinylidene fluoride-polyacrylonitrile-silicondioxide hybrid composite membrane

Materials Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1191-1198

  Sethupathy, Malaisamy ^a   Pandey, Priyanka ^a   Manisankar, Paramasivam ^a  

^a ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Electron microscopy (SEM); Polymers; Thin films

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; CONTACT ANGLE; ELECTROLYTES; ENAMELS; FABRICATION; FIBROUS MEMBRANES; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SIO2 NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (SEM); ELECTROSPUN FIBROUS MEMBRANES; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INCIDENT LIGHT INTENSITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYACRYLONITRILE (PAN); POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84891625641     PISSN: 02540584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2013.11.020     Document Type: Article

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