Engineering the intermediate band states in amorphous Ti3+-doped TiO2 for hybrid dye-sensitized solar cell applications

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 3, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 11437-11443

  Pan, Shusheng ^a,b   Liu, Xiaolin ^b   Guo, Min ^b   Yu, Siu Fung ^b   Huang, Haitao ^b   Fan, Hongtao ^c   Li, Guanghai ^a  

^a Institute of Solid State Physics   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c China National Academy of Nanotechnology and Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ENGINEERING; LASER ABLATION; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTUBES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; INTERMEDIATE BAND SEMICONDUCTOR; INTERMEDIATE BANDS; LARGE OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGES; PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; RECOMBINATION LIFETIME; ULTRAVIOLET PULSED LASERS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84930508294     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ta00956a     Document Type: Article

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