Mimicking the heteroleptic dyes for an efficient 1D-ZnO based dye-sensitized solar cell using the homoleptic ruthenium(II) dipyridophenazine complex as a photosensitizer

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3892-3902

  Barpuzary, Dipankar ^a   Banik, Avishek ^a   Panda, Aditya Narayan ^a   Qureshi, Mohammad ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; ZINC OXIDE; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

DIPYRIDOPHENAZINE COMPLEXES; FRONTIER MOLECULAR ORBITALS; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; LIGHT HARVESTING PROPERTIES; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; METAL TO LIGAND CHARGE TRANSFERS; MOLAR EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84923972495     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp510422d     Document Type: Article

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