Ionic liquid-sulfolane composite electrolytes for high-performance and stable dye-sensitized solar cells

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Marszalek, Magdalena ^a   Arendse, Francine Duriaux ^a   Decoppet, Jean David ^a   Babkair, Saeed Salem ^b   Ansari, Azhar Ahmad ^b   Habib, Sami S ^b   Wang, Mingkui ^a,c   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^a   Grätzel, Michael ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

impedance spectroscopy; ionic liquid electrolytes; photovoltaic devices; stability; sulfolane

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROLYTES; EUTECTICS; IONIC LIQUIDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; VISCOSITY;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; IONIC LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SULFOLANE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84900518868     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201301235     Document Type: Article

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