Hydrothermal synthesis of oriented ZnO nanorod-nanosheets hierarchical architecture on zinc foil as flexible photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Ceramics International

Volumn 40, Issue 8 PART A, 2014, Pages 11663-11670

  Zhu, Shibu ^a   Shan, Liming ^a   Tian, Xin ^a   Zheng, Xinyu ^a   Sun, Ding ^a   Liu, Xingbo ^a   Wang, Li ^b   Zhou, Zuowan ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA ACADEMY OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Flexible photoanodes; Hydrothermal method; Zinc foil; ZnO NR NS hierarchical structure

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANORODS; NANOSHEETS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRON RECOMBINATIONS; HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; INTERNAL SURFACE AREA; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE DECAYS (OCVD); PHOTO-ANODES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84903886810     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2014.03.173     Document Type: Article

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