Orbital topology controlling charge injection in quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1157-1162

  Hansen, Thorsten ^a,b   Žídek, Karel ^a   Zheng, Kaibo ^a   Abdellah, Mohamed ^a,c   Chábera, Pavel ^a   Persson, Petter ^a   Pullerits, Tõnu ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

bridge mediated electron transfer theory; electron transfer; femtosecond time resolved spectroscopy; frontier orbital; quantum dot sensitized solar cells

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRON TRANSFER RATES; ELECTRON-TRANSFER; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; FRONTIER ORBITALS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM-DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TOPOLOGY CONTROLLING;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; MOLECULES; SOLAR CELLS; TOPOLOGY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84898076784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz5001193     Document Type: Article

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