The effects of gold colloid concentration on photoanode electrodes to enhance plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cells performance

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 6276-6284

  Al Azawi, Mohammed A ^a   Bidin, Noriah ^a   Ali, Abdulrahman K ^b   Bououdina, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iraq)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COLLOIDS; EFFICIENCY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LASER ABLATION; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PLASMONICS; PLASMONS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; POROUS TITANIUM DIOXIDE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIZE MODIFICATION; SPECIFIC CONCENTRATION;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84937517848     PISSN: 09574522     EISSN: 1573482X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10854-015-3214-x     Document Type: Article

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