A maskless synthesis of tio2-nanofiber-based hierarchical structures for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells with improved performance

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Sabba, Dharani ^a,b   Agarwala, Shweta ^b   Pramana, Stevin S ^a   Mhaisalkar, Subodh ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Charge recombination; Dye loading; Electrospinning; Hierarchical; Hydrothermal; Nanofibers; Solid state dye sensitized solar cells

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROSPINNING; NANOFIBERS; NANORODS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OXIDE MINERALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DYE LOADING; HIERARCHICAL; HYDROTHERMAL; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84892501679     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-14     Document Type: Article

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