Corrole dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: The crucial role of the dye/semiconductor energy level alignment

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1030, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-66

  Salvatori, Paolo ^a,b   Amat, Anna ^a   Pastore, Mariachiara ^a   Vitillaro, Giuseppe ^a   Sudhakar, Kolanu ^c   Giribabu, Lingamallu ^c   Soujanya, Yarasi ^c   De Angelis, Filippo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Copper corroles; Density Functional Theory; Dye sensitized solar cells; Energy level alignment; Free base corroles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893016534     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2013.12.012     Document Type: Article

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