Utilizing Chromium as the Photoanode Substrate in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

ChemElectroChem

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 944-950

  Behrouznejad, Fatemeh ^a   Taghavinia, Nima ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Charge transfer; Chromium; Conducting materials; Dye sensitized solar cells; TiO2 colloidal sol

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMIUM; CORROSION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOCOMPOSITES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLS; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CONDUCTING MATERIALS; ELECTRON LIFETIME; ELECTRON RECOMBINATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON-TRANSFER RESISTANCE; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; MESOPOROUS LAYERS; TIO;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84915828754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21960216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/celc.201300235     Document Type: Article

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