Push - Pull type porphyrin based sensitizers: The effect of donor structure on the light-harvesting ability and photovoltaic performance

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 199-205

  Qi, Qingbiao ^a   Li, Renzhi ^b   Luo, Jie ^c   Zheng, Bin ^d   Huang, Kuo Wei ^d   Wang, Peng ^b   Wu, Jishan ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Anthracene; Carbazole; Organic dye; Porphyrin; Push pull; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PORPHYRINS; SOLAR CELLS;

CARBAZOLE; DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES; ORGANIC DYE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PUSH PULL;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84937578914     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: 18733743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2015.06.019     Document Type: Article

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