Investigation of transport and recombination properties in graphene/titanium dioxide nanocomposite for dye-sensitized solar cell photoanodes

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-159

  Sacco, Adriano ^a   Porro, Samuele ^a   Lamberti, Andrea ^a,b   Gerosa, Matteo ^b   Castellino, Micaela ^a   Chiodoni, Angelica ^a   Bianco, Stefano ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Charge recombination; Dye sensitized Solar Cell; Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; Graphene; Transport properties

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOCONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; RECOMBINATION KINETICS; SOLUTION-BASED PROCESS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84901194801     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.11.105     Document Type: Article

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