Asymmetric zinc phthalocyanines with large steric hindrance as efficient red/near-IR responsive sensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 114, Issue C, 2015, Pages 231-238

  Yu, Lijuan ^a   Shi, Wenye ^a   Lin, Li ^a   Guo, Yingying ^a   Li, Renjie ^a   Peng, Tianyou ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric zinc phthalocyanine; Conversion efficiency; Dye sensitized solar cell; Red near IR light absorption; Steric hindrance; Substituent push pull effect

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ABSORBANCES; DRIVING FORCES; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; MOLECULAR ORBITAL LEVELS; PUSH PULL; SENSITIZED CELLS; STERIC HINDRANCES; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84925381694     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: 18733743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2014.11.017     Document Type: Article

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