MgO-hybridized TiO2 interfacial layers assisting efficiency enhancement of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Sakai, Nobuya ^a   Ikegami, Masashi ^a   Miyasaka, Tsutomu ^a  

^a TOIN UNIVERSITY OF YOKOHAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DEHYDRATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; MAGNESIA; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACIAL MODIFICATION; MESOPOROUS SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; QUANTUM CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84931290155     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4864319     Document Type: Article

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