Electrocatalytic SiC Nanoparticles/PEDOT: PSS Composite Thin Films as the Counter Electrodes of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

ChemElectroChem

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1031-1039

  Tsai, Yu Lin ^a   Li, Chun Ting ^a   Huang, Tzu Yen ^a,b   Lee, Chi Ta ^a   Lin, Chen Yang ^a   Chu, Chih Wei ^b   Vittal, R ^a   Ho, Kuo Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbides; Counter electrodes; Dye sensitized solar cells; Energy conversion; Rotating disk electrode

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; COMPOSITE FILMS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ROTATING DISKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON CARBIDE; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; TIN OXIDES; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

COUNTER ELECTRODES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE):POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ROTATING DISK ELECTRODES; TAFEL POLARIZATION CURVES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84925741255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21960216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/celc.201300242     Document Type: Article

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