Manipulation of light harvesting for efficient dyesensitized solar cell by doping an ultraviolet lightcapturing fluorophore

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 106-111

  Lin, Yu Jie ^a   Chang, Cheng Chung ^a   Cherng, Sheng Jye ^a   Chen, Jyun Wei ^a   Chen, Chih Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fluorophore; F rster resonance energy transfer; Light harvesting; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHORES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RESONANCE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FLUORESCENT COMPOUNDS; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; LIGHT-HARVESTING; ORGANIC FLUOROPHORES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84919635967     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2407     Document Type: Article

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