Transient states and the role of excited state self-quenching of indoline dyes in complete dye-sensitized solar cells

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 692-701

  Sobus̈, Jan ^a   Karolczak, Jerzy ^a   Komar, Dariusz ^a   Anta, Juan A ^b   Ziółek, Marcin ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dye aggregation; Dye sensitized solar cells; Indoline dyes; Titanium dioxide nanoparticles; Ultrafast spectroscopy; Zinc oxide nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON INJECTION; EXCITED STATES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PUMPING; QUENCHING; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; ZINC OXIDE;

DYE AGGREGATION; INDOLINE DYES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLES; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84924291254     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: 18733743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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