Efficient triarylamine-perylene dye-sensitized solar cells: Influence of triple-bond insertion on charge recombination

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 801-809

  Yan, Cancan ^a,b   Ma, Wentao ^a   Ren, Yameng ^a,b   Zhang, Min ^a   Wang, Peng ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

charge recombination; organic dye; perylene; solar cell

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; INTERFACIAL CHARGE; MOLAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; OPEN-CIRCUIT PHOTOVOLTAGE; ORGANIC DYE; PERYLENES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; X-RAY REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84921309714     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am507261j     Document Type: Article

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