Theoretical study of benzene/thiophene based photosensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 152-158

  Mehmood, Umer ^a   Hussein, Ibnelwaleed A ^a   Daud, Muhammad ^a   Ahmed, Shakeel ^a   Harrabi, Khalil ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Benzene thiophene; Density functional theory; Free energy; Light harvesting efficiency; Photosensitizers; TiO2 nano cluster

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONDUCTION BANDS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOCLUSTERS; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHARGE TRANSPORT PROCESS; COMPLEX ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ENERGY LEVEL DIAGRAMS; FREE-ENERGY CALCULATIONS; KOHN-SHAM DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY; LIGHT-HARVESTING; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84925614297     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: 18733743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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