A strategy to enhance the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells by the highly efficient TiO2/ZnS photoanode

Dalton Transactions

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2447-2455

  Srinivasa Rao, S ^a   Punnoose, Dinah ^a   Venkata Tulasivarma, Ch ^a   Pavan Kumar, C H S S ^a   Gopi, Chandu V V M ^a   Kim, Soo Kyoung ^a   Kim, Hee Je ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC SULFIDE;

DOCTOR BLADE METHOD; ELECTRON TRANSPORTATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; PHOTO-INJECTED ELECTRONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REDOX ELECTROLYTES; SUCCESSIVE IONIC LAYER ADSORPTION AND REACTIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84921696091     PISSN: 14779226     EISSN: 14779234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt03102d     Document Type: Article

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