Vanadium oxide as new charge recombination blocking layer for high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

Nano Energy

Volumn 13, Issue , 2015, Pages 368-375

  Elbohy, Hytham ^a   Thapa, Amit ^a   Poudel, Prashant ^a   Adhikary, Nirmal ^a   Venkatesan, Swaminathan ^a   Qiao, Qiquan ^a  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge recombination blocking layer; Dye sensitized solar cells; Vanadium oxide

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOCRYSTALS; OXIDES; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; VANADIUM; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

BLOCKING LAYERS; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; EFFICIENCY INCREASE; ELECTRON RECOMBINATIONS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SURFACE PASSIVATION; TRANSIENT PHOTOVOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; VANADIUM OXIDES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84926010831     PISSN: 22112855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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