Engineered porous silicon counter electrodes for high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9904-9910

  Erwin, William R ^a   Oakes, Landon ^a   Chatterjee, Shahana ^a   Zarick, Holly F ^a   Pint, Cary L ^a   Bardhan, Rizia ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

counter electrodes; dye sensitized solar cell; graphene; porous silicon; solar energy conversion; surface passivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903517484     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503257e     Document Type: Article

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