Probing electron lifetime and recombination dynamics in large area dye-sensitized solar cells by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 925, Issue , 2014, Pages 553-558

  Fakharuddin, Azhar ^a   Ahmed, Irfan ^a   Wali, Qamar ^a   bin Khalidin, Zulkefli ^b   Yosuff, Mashitah M ^a   Rajan, Jose ^a  

^a Nanostructured Renewable Energy Materials Laboratory   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Charge transport resistance; Diffusion length in DSSC modules. scalability of DSSCs; Dye sensitized solar modules; Electron lifetime of large area DSSCs

Indexed keywords

CARRIER LIFETIME; DIFFUSION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SPECTROSCOPY;

DIFFUSION LENGTH; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRON DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRON LIFETIME; EQUIVALENT ELECTRICAL MODELS; SOLAR MODULE; TRANSPORT RESISTANCE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84901717937     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.925.553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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