Insight into D-A-π-A structured sensitizers: A promising route to highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 9307-9318

  Wu, Yongzhen ^a   Zhu, Wei Hong ^a   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

additional acceptor; organic sensitizers; photovoltaic performances; solar cells; stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ADDITIONAL ACCEPTOR; MOLECULAR ENGINEERING; ORGANIC SENSITIZERS; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; STABILITY ENHANCEMENT;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84929162748     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02475     Document Type: Article

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