Red-absorbing cationic acceptor dyes for photocathodes in tandem solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16536-16546

  Wood, Christopher J ^a   Cheng, Ming ^b   Clark, Charlotte A ^a   Horvath, Raphael ^a   Clark, Ian P ^d   Hamilton, Michelle L ^a,e   Towrie, Michael ^d,e   George, Michael W ^a,e   Sun, Licheng ^b,c   Yang, Xichuan ^b   Gibson, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^e Dynamic Structural Science Consortium   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRODES; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; PHOTONS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT DENSITIES; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; TIME RESOLVED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; ULTRA-FAST; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84905457055     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4119937     Document Type: Article

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