D-π-A porphyrin sensitizers with π-extended conjugation for Mesoscopic solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 14739-14748

  Lu, Jianfeng ^a   Zhang, Bingyan ^a   Yuan, Huailiang ^a   Xu, Xiaobao ^a   Cao, Kun ^a   Cui, Jin ^a   Liu, Shuangshuang ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Cheng, Yibing ^a,c   Xu, Jie ^b   Wang, Mingkui ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTES; EXCITED STATES; POSITIVE IONS; RATE CONSTANTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; EXCITED SINGLET STATE; EXTENDED CONJUGATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC PARAMETERS; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; STANDARD TEST CONDITION (STC); TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TRANSIENT PHOTOVOLTAGE DECAY;

PORPHYRINS;

EID: 84904368076     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5014829     Document Type: Article

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