Structural effect of donor in organic dye on recombination in dye-sensitized solar cells with cobalt complex electrolyte

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2274-2279

  Murakami, Takurou N ^a   Koumura, Nagatoshi ^a   Kimura, Mutsumi ^b   Mori, Shogo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON LIFETIME; NON-PLANAR STRUCTURES; REDOX ELECTROLYTES; STERIC HINDRANCES; STRUCTURAL EFFECT; TRIPHENYL AMINES;

COBALT; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOLAR CELLS;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84897714086     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la4047808     Document Type: Article

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