Excited state and injection dynamics of triphenylamine sensitizers containing a benzothiazole electron-accepting group on TiO2 and Al2O3 thin films

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 49, 2014, Pages 28509-28519

  Fakis, Mihalis ^a   Hrobárik, Peter ^b   Yushchenko, Oleksandr ^d   Sigmundová, Ivica ^c   Koch, Marius ^d   Rosspeintner, Arnulf ^d   Stathatos, Elias ^e   Vauthey, Eric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CHEMICAL BONDS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON INJECTION; ELECTRONS; GROUND STATE; POSITIVE IONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ELECTRON-ACCEPTING; ELECTRONWITHDRAWING; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; NANO-CRYSTALLINE TIO; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATION; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE; TRANSIENT ELECTRONICS; TRIPHENYLAMINE MOIETY;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84949115236     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp509971q     Document Type: Article

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