Significant improvement of phenothiazine organic dye-sensitized solar cell performance using dithiafulvenyl unit as additional donor

Organic Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue , 2015, Pages 107-113

  Wan, Zhongquan ^a   Jia, Chunyang ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Luo, Junsheng ^a   Yao, Xiaojun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Additional donor; Dithiafulvenyl; Dye sensitized solar cell; Organic dye; Phenothiazine

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ADDITIONAL DONOR; DITHIAFULVENYL; ELECTRON-DONATING ABILITY; METAL FREE ORGANIC DYES; ORGANIC DYE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PHENOTHIAZINE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84943422412     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.09.009     Document Type: Article

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