Graphene on Metal Grids as the Transparent Conductive Material for Dye Sensitized Solar Cell

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 25863-25868

  Dong, Pei ^a   Zhu, Yu ^b,c,d   Zhang, Jing ^a   Peng, Cheng ^a   Yan, Zheng ^b   Li, Lei ^b   Peng, Zhiwei ^b   Ruan, Gedeng ^b   Xiao, Wanyao ^d   Lin, Hong ^e   Tour, James M ^a,b,c   Lou, Jun ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Akron   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING TESTS; BIOMECHANICS; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; NANOCOMPOSITES; PLATINUM; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

FLEXIBLE DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; INDIUM DOPED TIN OXIDES; LOW- TEMPERATURE PROCESS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE LAYER; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84926437815     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp505735j     Document Type: Article

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