Synthesis of multilayered TiO2 "donuts" for improved quantum-dot sensitized solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 133, Issue , 2015, Pages 201-207

  Dong, Hui ^a   Wu, Dapeng ^a,b   Zhu, Feng ^a   Wang, Feifan ^a   Zhu, Shengfa ^c   Li, Qi ^a   Xu, Dongsheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

Author keywords

Hierarchical structure; QDSSCs; TiO2

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOSHEETS; PORE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; ELECTROLYTE PENETRATION; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; PHOTOANODE MATERIALS; QDSSCS; SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TIO;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84912023264     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.10.047     Document Type: Article

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