Influence of number of benzodioxan-stilbazole-based ancillary ligands on dye packing, photovoltage and photocurrent in dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 11617-11624

  Cheema, Hammad ^a   Islam, Ashraful ^b   Han, Liyuan ^b   El Shafei, Ahmed ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; IPCE; mono versus bis electron donor ancillary ligands; Ru(II) bipyridyl complexes; solar to electric conversion

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EXCITED STATES; FREE ENERGY; LIGANDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOCURRENTS; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANCILLARY LIGANDS; BIPYRIDYL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; EXCITED STATE LIFETIMES; IPCE; MOLAR EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84905002608     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502400b     Document Type: Article

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