Low-Temperature Thermally Reduced Molybdenum Disulfide as a Pt-Free Counter Electrode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Lin, Che Hsien ^a   Tsai, Chuen Horng ^a   Tseng, Fan Gang ^a   Yu, Yang Yen ^b   Wu, Hsuan Chung ^b   Hsieh, Chien Kuo ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Counter electrode; Dye sensitized solar cells; Molybdenum disulfide; Thermal reduction

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLATINUM; SOLAR CELLS; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TIN OXIDES; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

COUNTER ELECTRODES; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; SHORT RANGE ORDERING; THERMAL REACTIONS; THERMAL REDUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84947238020     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-1156-0     Document Type: Article

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