Performance and Stability Enhancement of Dye-Sensitized and Perovskite Solar Cells by Al Doping of TiO2

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 6046-6055

  Pathak, Sandeep K ^a   Abate, A ^b   Ruckdeschel, P ^a   Roose, B ^a   Gödel, Karl C ^a   Vaynzof, Yana ^a   Santhala, Aditya ^a   Watanabe, Shun Ichiro ^a   Hollman, Derek J ^b   Noel, Nakita ^b   Sepe, Alessandro ^a   Wiesner, Ullrich ^c   Friend, Richard ^a   Snaith, Henry J ^b   Steiner, Ullrich ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

device stability; dye sensitized solar cells; perovskite solar cells; photodegradation; photovoltaics; thermal degradation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; GAS ADSORPTION; METALS; PASSIVATION; PEROVSKITE; PHOTODEGRADATION; PYROLYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STABILITY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DEVICE STABILITY; INERT ATMOSPHERES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OXYGEN ADSORPTION; PERFORMANCE DETERIORATION; PHOTOVOLTAICS; STABILITY ENHANCEMENT; SUBSTITUTIONAL INCORPORATION;

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84941047847     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201401658     Document Type: Article

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