Influence of ionic liquid on recombination and regeneration kinetics in dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 17153-17159

  Li, Feng ^a   Jennings, James Robert ^a   Wang, Xingzhu ^a   Fan, Li ^a   Koh, Zhen Yu ^a   Yu, Hao ^b   Yan, Lei ^b   Wang, Qing ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROLYTES; IONIC STRENGTH; SOLAR CELLS; VISCOSITY;

BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION; DIFFUSION LIMITATIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NON-VOLATILE ELECTROLYTE; ROOM TEMPERATURE IONIC LIQUIDS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; VOLATILE ELECTROLYTES;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84905463616     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp502341a     Document Type: Article

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