Simultaneous multiple wavelength upconversion in a core-shell nanoparticle for enhanced near infrared light harvesting in a dye-sensitized solar cell

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 18018-18025

  Yuan, Chunze ^a   Chen, Guanying ^a,b,e   Li, Lin ^a   Damasco, Jossana A ^b   Ning, Zhijun ^a   Xing, Hui ^c   Zhang, Tianmu ^d   Sun, Licheng ^a   Zeng, Hao ^c   Cartwright, Alexander N ^d   Prasad, Paras N ^b   Ågren, Hans ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d State University of New York   (United States)

^e HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; energy relay; nanoparticles; near infrared; upconversion

Indexed keywords

CORE SHELL NANOPARTICLES; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLS;

ENERGY RELAY; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; OVERALL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; UP-CONVERSION; UPCONVERSION NANOPARTICLES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908222033     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504866g     Document Type: Article

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