Suppressing Förster resonance energy transfer between organic dyes on a cosensitized metal oxide surface

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 34, 2014, Pages 19646-19654

  Dryza, Viktoras ^a   Bieske, Evan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE MOMENT; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; ZIRCONIA; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITED STATES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; EXCITED STATE LIFETIMES; METAL OXIDE SURFACES; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSITION DIPOLE MOMENTS; ZIRCONIA NANOPARTICLES; ORIENTATION FACTORS; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; BINDING ENERGY;

EID: 84906878026     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp506392u     Document Type: Article

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