Organic sensitizers featuring 9,10-diaryl-substituted anthracene unit

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1776-1784

  Li, Huiyang ^a   Yang, Yizhou ^a   Hou, Yingqin ^a   Tang, Runli ^a   Duan, Tainan ^a   Chen, Junnian ^a   Wang, Heng ^b   Han, Hongwei ^b   Peng, Tianyou ^a   Chen, Xingguo ^a   Li, Qianqian ^a   Li, Zhen ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

9,10 Diaryl substituted anthracene; ? ? Stacking; Dye sensitized solar cell; Intramolecular charge transfer; Organic sensitizer

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

?-? STACKING; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; INTRA-MOLECULAR CHARGE TRANSFER; ORGANIC SENSITIZER; OVERALL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE;

ANTHRACENE;

EID: 84903974303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500234a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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