Solar-to-Electric Performance Enhancement by Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles Coated with Porous Yttrium Oxide for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1518-1525

  Zhao, Bingxin ^a   Wang, Jinshu ^a   Li, Hongyi ^a   Xu, Yue ^a   Yu, Haijun ^a   Jia, Xinjian ^a   Zhang, Xiaofei ^a   Hao, Yaowu ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscattering barrier; Heterojunction; Photovoltage; Photovoltaic performance; Porous coating; Yttria

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COATINGS; FREE ENERGY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOPARTICLES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; YTTRIUM ALLOYS; YTTRIUM OXIDE;

CORE-SHELL HETEROJUNCTIONS; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; ELECTROSTATIC CONTRIBUTIONS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POROUS COATINGS; TITANIUM OXIDE NANO-PARTICLES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84936950884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00221     Document Type: Article

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