Engineered interfacial and configuration design of double layered SnO2@TiO2-ZnO nanoplates ternary heterostructures for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 151, Issue , 2015, Pages 399-406

  Wang, Yu Fen ^a   Zhao, Wen Xia ^b   Li, Xi Fei ^a   Li, De Jun ^a  

^a TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Electron transport; Light scattering; SnO2 nanoparticels; TiO2; ZnO nanoplates

Indexed keywords

ANODES; COMPOSITE FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE FILMS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTRA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE (FTO); HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; NANOPARTICELS; NANOPLATES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TIO;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84911471338     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.11.059     Document Type: Article

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