Trilayered photoanode of TiO2 nanoparticles on a 1D-3D nanostructured TiO2-grown flexible Ti substrate for high-efficiency (9.1%) dye-sensitized solar cells with unprecedentedly high photocurrent density

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16426-16432

  Wu, Wu Qiang ^a   Xu, Yang Fan ^a   Rao, Hua Shang ^a   Su, Cheng Yong ^a   Kuang, Dai Bin ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SUBSTRATES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; LARGE SURFACE AREA; NANOSTRUCTURED TIO; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT DENSITIES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84905455118     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4116782     Document Type: Article

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