ZnO photoanodes with different morphologies grown by electrochemical deposition and their dye-sensitized solar cell properties

Ceramics International

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 7965-7970

  Zi, Min ^a   Zhu, Min ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Wei, Haoming ^b   Yang, Xiaopeng ^a   Cao, Bingqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

D. ZnO; Dye sensitized solar cell; Electrochemical deposition; Morphology of photoanodes

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEPOSITION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; FILM GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; REDUCTION; ZINC OXIDE;

CURRENT DENSITY-VOLTAGE CURVES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTRA; PHOTO-ANODES; PRECURSOR CONCENTRATION; ZNO;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84897461840     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2013.12.146     Document Type: Article

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