Fabrication of dye sensitized solar cells with spray coated carbon nano tube (CNT) based counter electrodes

Energy Procedia

Volumn 68, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-44

  Widodo, Slamet ^a   Wiranto, Goib ^a   Hidayat, Mirza Nur ^b  

^a INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Counter electrode; Dye sensitized solar cells; Light energy conversion efficiency; Photosensitizer; Sheet resistance; Spray coating; Transmittance

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; SHEET RESISTANCE; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; TIN OXIDES; YARN;

COUNTER ELECTRODES; FLUORINE TIN OXIDES; GLASS SUBSTRATES; IV CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT TRANSMITTANCE; LIGHT-ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SPRAY COATING; TRANSMITTANCE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84945173626     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.03.230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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