Rapid sintering of TiO2 photoelectrodes using intense pulsed white light for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Jin, Hwa Young ^a,b   Kim, Jae Yup ^a   Lee, Jin Ah ^a   Lee, Kwangsoo ^a   Yoo, Kicheon ^a   Lee, Doh Kwon ^a   Kim, Bongsoo ^a   Kim, Jin Young ^a   Kim, Honggon ^a   Jung Son, Hae ^a   Kim, Jihyun ^b   Lim, Jung Ah ^a   Ko, Min Jae ^a,b  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; FABRICATION PROCESS; FLEXIBLE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; IMPEDANCE SPECTRUM; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

SINTERING;

EID: 84899005395     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4871370     Document Type: Article

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