Efficient p-type dye-sensitized solar cells with all-nano-electrodes: NiCo2S4 mesoporous nanosheet counter electrodes directly converted from NiCo2O4 photocathodes

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shi, Zhiwei ^a   Lu, Hao ^a   Liu, Qiong ^a   Cao, Fengren ^a   Guo, Jun ^a   Deng, Kaimo ^a   Li, Liang ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Counter electrodes; Dye sensitized solar cells; Nanosheets; p type; Ternary sulfides

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; COBALT COMPOUNDS; ELECTROLYTES; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSHEETS; NICKEL OXIDE; OXIDE FILMS; PHOTOCATHODES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; TIN OXIDES;

CELL EFFICIENCY; COUNTER ELECTRODES; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; LOW TEMPERATURE SOLUTIONS; NANO-ELECTRODES; P-TYPE; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; TERNARY SULFIDE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84928390436     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-608     Document Type: Article

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