Nitrogen-Doped Graphene/Platinum Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1264-1269

  Lin, Chin An ^a,b   Lee, Chuan Pei ^b   Ho, Shu Te ^a   Wei, Tzu Chiao ^b   Chi, Yu Wen ^c   Huang, K P ^c   He, Jr Hau ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

counter electrode; dye sensitized solar cells; nitrogen doped graphene; platinum

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GRAPHENE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NITROGEN; PLATINUM; REDOX REACTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; TIN OXIDES;

COUNTER ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; HYBRID STRUCTURE; LARGE SURFACE AREA; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; REFLECTION EFFECTS; VALENCE-BAND MAXIMUMS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84925841357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500219r     Document Type: Article

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