Evaluation of various diameters of titanium oxide nanofibers for efficient dye sensitized solar cells synthesized by electrospinning technique: A systematic study and their application

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 166, Issue , 2015, Pages 356-366

  Mali, Sawanta S ^a   Shim, Chang Su ^a   Kim, Hyungjin ^a   Patil, Jyoti V ^b   Ahn, Dong Hee ^a   Patil, Pramod S ^b   Hong, Chang Kook ^a  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

EIS; Electrospun titanium oxide nanofibers effect of feeding rate 5.39 power conversion efficiency (PCE); IMPS IMVS

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROSPINNING; FEEDING; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOFIBERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; SPINNING (FIBERS); TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BRUNAUER EMMETT TELLERS; EIS; ELECTROSPINNING TECHNIQUES; FEEDING RATE; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING; IMPS/IMVS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE DECAYS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84925679926     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.03.113     Document Type: Article

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