Combined strategy to realize efficient photoelectrodes for low temperature fabrication of dye solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 6425-6433

  Alberti, A ^a   De Marco, L ^c   Pellegrino, G ^a   Condorelli, G G ^b   Giannuzzi, R ^c   Scarfiello, R ^c   Manca, M ^c   Spinella, C ^a   Gigli, G ^c,d,e   La Magna, A ^a  

^a CNR IMM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

AZO; blocking layer; DSSC; sputtering

Indexed keywords

NANORODS; SINTERING; SOLAR CELLS; SPUTTERING;

AZO; BLOCKING LAYERS; DSSC; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; LOW-TEMPERATURE FABRICATION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TIO; UNIFORM MESOPOROUS STRUCTURE;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84900871659     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am4058524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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