Fine tuning of fluorene-based dye structures for high-efficiency p -type dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 10614-10622

  Liu, Zonghao ^a   Li, Wenhui ^a   Topa, Sanjida ^d   Xu, Xiaobao ^a   Zeng, Xianwei ^a   Zhao, Zhixin ^a   Wang, Mingkui ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Wang, Feng ^d   Cheng, Yi Bing ^a,c   He, Hongshan ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

charge recombination; fluorene; NiO; organic sensitizer; p type dye sensitized solar cells

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FLUORENES; NIO; ORGANIC SENSITIZER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84904090981     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5022396     Document Type: Article

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