Transparent platinum counter electrode for efficient semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cells

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 562, Issue , 2014, Pages 578-584

  Iefanova, Anastasiia ^a   Nepal, Jeevan ^a   Poudel, Prashant ^a   Davoux, Daren ^a   Gautam, Umesh ^a   Mallam, Venkataiah ^b   Qiao, Qiquan ^a   Logue, Brian ^b   Baroughi, Mahdi Farrokh ^a  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Pt nanoparticles; Transparent counter electrode; Transparent solar cells

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; FABRICATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLATINUM; SOLAR CELLS; TIN OXIDES;

CONSUMPTION REDUCING; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; OVERALL TRANSPARENCIES; PLATINUM COUNTER ELECTRODES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PT NANOPARTICLES; TRANSPARENT COUNTER ELECTRODES; TRANSPARENT SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 84901779024     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2014.03.075     Document Type: Article

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