Exploiting quantum interference in dye sensitized solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 409-418

  Maggio, Emanuele ^a   Solomon, Gemma C ^b   Troisi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

antiresonance; charge recombination; interface; semiconductor; tunnelling

Indexed keywords

ANTI-RESONANCE; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; CHARGE RECOMBINATION PROCESS; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; RECOMBINATION LIFETIME; TIGHT-BINDING CALCULATIONS;

CHROMOPHORES; GROUP THEORY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84893433741     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4045886     Document Type: Article

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