Charge separation dynamics at inorganic/organic nanostructured hybrid photovoltaic interfaces

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Eichberger, Rainer ^a   Strothkämper, Christian ^a   Thomas, Inara ^a   Hannappel, Thomas ^a   Schwarzburg, Klaus ^a   Fasting, Carlo ^b   Bartelt, Andreas ^a   Schütz, Robert ^a  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Dynamics; Electron transfer; Energy transfer; F rster resonance energy transfer; Hybrid; ZnO

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRON TRANSFER; HYBRID; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; ZNO;

ENERGY TRANSFER; NANORODS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84896694171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.2.021003     Document Type: Article

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