Effects of surface modification on dye-sensitized solar cell based on an organic dye with naphtho[2,1-b:3,4-b′]dithiophene as the conjugated linker

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1926-1932

  Wang, Xiaoxu ^a   Guo, Lei ^b   Xia, Ping Fang ^b   Zheng, Fan ^a   Wong, Man Shing ^b   Zhu, Zhengtao ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cell; electron transport; organic dyes; photoanode; surface passivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894117460     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am404984g     Document Type: Article

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