Fabrication of flexible plastic solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells using low temperature techniques

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16352-16357

  Xue, Zhaosheng ^a,b   Jiang, Changyun ^c   Wang, Long ^b   Liu, Wei ^a   Liu, Bin ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FABRICATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

AMORPHOUS THIN FILMS; ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITIONS; FLEXIBLE PLASTICS; LOW TEMPERATURE TECHNIQUES; LOW TEMPERATURES; POLYMER SUBSTRATE; RECTIFYING BEHAVIORS; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84903211231     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp408663d     Document Type: Article

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