Improved photovoltages for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells using CuCrO2 nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16375-16379

  Powar, Satvasheel ^a,b,h   Xiong, Dehua ^c   Daeneke, Torben ^d   Ma, Michelle T ^a   Gupta, Akhil ^d   Lee, George ^a   Makuta, Satoshi ^e   Tachibana, Yasuhiro ^e,f   Chen, Wei ^b   Spiccia, Leone ^a   Cheng, Yi Bing ^a,c   Götz, Günther ^g   Bäuerle, Peter ^g   Bach, Udo ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^g MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

^h HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

CUCRO; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; MESOPOROUS; P-TYPE; PHOTOVOLTAGES; REDOX MEDIATORS; VALENCE BAND EDGES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84905457626     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409363u     Document Type: Article

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