Light harvesting properties of ferrocenyl based sensitizer with sulfur rich dithiocarabamates and xanthate as anchoring group

Solar Energy

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 560-569

  Chauhan, Ratna ^b   Auvinen, Sami ^c   Aditya, A S ^d   Trivedi, Manoj ^e   Prasad, Rajendra ^f   Alatalo, Matti ^c   Amalnerkar, Dinesh P ^b   Kumar, Abhinav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY C MET   (India)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^f Department of Chemistry SGB Amrawati University   (India)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Dye sensitized solar cells; Ferrocenyl; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; POTASSIUM; SULFUR; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; CYCLIC VOLTAMMOGRAMS; DENSITY OF STATE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FERROCENYL; INTERFACE SYSTEM; LIGHT HARVESTING PROPERTIES; LONG TERM STABILITY;

SOLAR CELLS;

DYE; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRON; HARVESTING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDE; SULFUR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84907331525     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.08.013     Document Type: Article

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