Photocurrent enhanced by singlet fission in a dye-sensitized solar cell

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2286-2293

  Schrauben, Joel N ^a   Zhao, Yixin ^a   Mercado, Candy ^a,b   Dron, Paul I ^b   Ryerson, Joseph L ^a,b   Michl, Josef ^b,c   Zhu, Kai ^a   Johnson, Justin C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

charge transfer; photocurrent; photovoltaics; singlet fission; spectroscopy; triplet

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY; INTERNAL OXIDATION; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SPECTROSCOPY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCONIA;

INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; KINETIC SIMULATION; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYCRYSTALLINE FILM; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY; TRIPLET;

SINGLET FISSION;

EID: 84922475031     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506329v     Document Type: Article

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