Design strategies of metal free-organic sensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells: Role of donor and acceptor monomers

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1205-1214

  Tseng, Chieh Yu ^a   Taufany, Fadlilatul ^a   Nachimuthu, Santhanamoorthi ^a   Jiang, Jyh Chiang ^a   Liaw, Der Jang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Absorption spectra; DFT TDDFT; Donor acceptor; Dual band; Organic dyes

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTRA; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; MONOMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

DFT/TDDFT; DONOR ACCEPTORS; DONOR-ACCEPTOR COMBINATIONS; DUAL BAND; METAL-FREE SENSITIZERS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ORGANIC DYE; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84898609439     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.03.022     Document Type: Article

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