Structure-property relationships: Steric effect in ancillary ligand and how it influences photocurrent and photovoltage in dye-sensitized solar cells

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 151-159

  Cheema, Hammad ^a   Ogbose, Louis ^b   El Shafei, Ahmed ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Impedance spectroscopy; IPCE; Naphthalene based ancillary ligand; Ru (II) bipyridyl complexes; Solar to electric conversion

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; LIGANDS; NAPHTHALENE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REDOX REACTIONS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SHIMS;

ANCILLARY LIGANDS; BIPYRIDYL; ELECTRIC CONVERSION; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IPCE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84906735583     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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