Fabrication of carbon-coated silicon nanowires and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 18788-18794

  Kim, Junhee ^a   Lim, Jeongmin ^b   Kim, Minsoo ^a   Lee, Hae Seok ^a   Jun, Yongseok ^b   Kim, Donghwan ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

carbon; core shell nanostructure; counter electrode; dye sensitized solar cells; silicon nanowire

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COREMAKING; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODES; FABRICATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

CORE/SHELL; CORE/SHELL NANOWIRE ARRAYS; COUNTER ELECTRODES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROLESS METAL DEPOSITION; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SILICON NANOWIRES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84910137158     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504469y     Document Type: Article

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