Ultrafast dynamics at the zinc phthalocyanine/zinc oxide nanohybrid interface for efficient solar light harvesting in the near red region

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 143, Issue , 2015, Pages 63-71

  Seddigi, Zaki S ^a   Ahmed, Saleh A ^a   Sardar, Samim ^b   Pal, Samir Kumar ^b  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Flow device; Nanohybrids; Reactive oxygen species (ROS); Red light photocatalysis; Zinc phthalocyanines (ZnPc)

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITED STATES; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACE STATES; IRRADIATION; LIGANDS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE DEFECTS; WATER POLLUTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS; ZINC OXIDE;

FLOW DEVICES; NANOHYBRIDS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RED LIGHT; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

PHOTOCATALYSIS;

EID: 84936817511     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.06.026     Document Type: Article

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