High-temperature annealing of TiO2 nanotube membranes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mohammadpour, Fatemeh ^a   Altomare, Marco ^b   So, Seulgi ^b   Lee, Kiyoung ^b   Mokhtar, Mohamed ^c   Alshehri, Abdelmohsen ^c   Al Thabaiti, Shaeel A ^c   Schmuki, Patrik ^b,c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

anodization; dye sensitized solar cell; electron transport; high temperature crystallization; TiO2 nanotube membrane

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; MEMBRANES; NANOTUBES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TUBES (COMPONENTS); YARN;

ANODIZATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGH TEMPERATURE CRYSTALLIZATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE ANNEALING; NANOTUBE MEMBRANES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84948462108     PISSN: 02681242     EISSN: 13616641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/31/1/014010     Document Type: Article

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