Highly conductive and low cost Ni-PET flexible substrate for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5577-5584

  Su, Haijun ^a,b   Zhang, Mingyang ^a   Chang, Ya Huei ^a   Zhai, Peng ^a   Hau, Nga Yu ^a   Huang, Yu Ting ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Soh, Ai Kah ^a,c   Feng, Shien Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

conductive; counter electrode; dye sensitized solar cell; electrodeposition; flexible substrate; photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODEPOSITION; ENERGY CONVERSION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NICKEL; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

CONDUCTIVE; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; PHOTOVOLTAIC;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84899569407     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am406026n     Document Type: Article

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