Enhanced Visible Photovoltaic Response of TiO2 Thin Film with an All-Inorganic Donor-Acceptor Type Polyoxometalate

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13714-13721

  Li, Jian Sheng ^a   Sang, Xiao Jing ^a   Chen, Wei Lin ^a   Zhang, Lan Cui ^b   Zhu, Zai Ming ^b   Ma, Teng Ying ^a   Su, Zhong Min ^a   Wang, En Bo ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

donor acceptor; photovoltaic; polyoxometalate; TiO2; visible

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYES; ENERGY GAP; ENERGY HARVESTING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; OXIDES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILMS; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DONOR ACCEPTORS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POLYOXOMETALATES; TIO2; VISIBLE;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84934912044     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03948     Document Type: Article

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