Large-diameter titanium dioxide nanotube arrays as a scattering layer for high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cell

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-5

  Liu, Xiaolin ^a,b   Guo, Min ^b   Cao, Jianjun ^a   Lin, Jia ^a   Tsang, Yuen Hong ^b   Chen, Xianfeng ^a   Huang, Haitao ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Electrochemical reactions; Large diameter titanium dioxide nanotubes; Scattering layer

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLYTES; LACTIC ACID; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOTUBES; OXIDES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; LIGHT MANAGEMENT; LIGHT-SCATTERING LAYER; SCATTERING LAYER; TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOTUBE ARRAY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOTUBES; TITANIUM DIOXIDES (TIO2);

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84940315090     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-362     Document Type: Article

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