Highly efficient one-dimensional ZnO nanowire-based dye-sensitized solar cell using a metal-free, D-π-A-type, carbazole derivative with more than 5% power conversion

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 12629-12639

  Barpuzary, Dipankar ^a   Patra, Anindya S ^a   Vaghasiya, Jayraj V ^b   Solanki, Bharat G ^b   Soni, Saurabh S ^b   Qureshi, Mohammad ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

D A carbazole dye; DFT calculations; dye sensitized solar cell; frontier molecular orbital; one dimensional ZnO nanowires; ZnO nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

CARBONYLATION; CHARGE TRANSFER; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; NANOWIRES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOLAR CELLS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

DFT CALCULATION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FRONTIER MOLECULAR ORBITALS; ZNO NANOPARTICLES; ZNO NANOWIRES;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84906282102     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5026193     Document Type: Article

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