Structure-property relationship of hetero-aromatic-electron-donor antennas of polypyridyl Ru (II) complexes for high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 958-969

  El Shafei, Ahmed ^a   Hussain, Maqbool ^a   Islam, Ashraful ^b   Han, Liyuan ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

dye solar cells; efficiency; ground state oxidation potential; photocurrent; photovoltage

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; LIGANDS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIOPHENE;

DYE SOLAR CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FULL-ELECTRON BASIS SET; GROUND-STATE OXIDATION; MOLAR EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT DENSITIES; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84906283126     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2349     Document Type: Article

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