Three dimensional indium-tin-oxide nanorod array for charge collection in dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 17713-17722

  Lee, Byunghong ^a,b   Guo, Peijun ^a,b   Li, Shi Qiang ^a,b   Buchholz, D Bruce ^a,b   Chang, Robert P H ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

air spray; charge collection; dye sensitized solar cell; finite element modeling; indium tin oxide nanorod; photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANORODS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TIN OXIDES;

AIR SPRAYS; CHARGE COLLECTION; CHARGE COLLECTION DISTANCES; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SOLAR CELL STRUCTURES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908212800     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504126g     Document Type: Article

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