Enhancing thermal stability and lifetime of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells via molecular engineering of the hole-transporting material spiro-OMeTAD

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 11107-11116

  Malinauskas, Tadas ^a   Tomkute Luksiene, Daiva ^a   Sens, Rüdiger ^b   Daskeviciene, Maryte ^a   Send, Robert ^b   Wonneberger, Henrike ^b   Jankauskas, Vygintas ^c   Bruder, Ingmar ^b   Getautis, Vytautas ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

amorphous materials; charge transport; hybrid solar cells; morphological stability; spiro compounds

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CELL ENGINEERING; CHARGE TRANSFER; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; HOLE MOBILITY; HYBRID MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

HOLE TRANSPORTING LAYERS; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; MOLECULAR ENGINEERING; MORPHOLOGICAL STABILITY; SOLAR CELL DEGRADATION; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SPIRO COMPOUNDS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84930666207     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5090385     Document Type: Article

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