Sensitized zinc-cobalt-oxide spinel p-type photoelectrode

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 25340-25349

  Mercado, Candy C ^a   Zakutayev, Andriy ^b   Zhu, Kai ^b   Flynn, Cory J ^c   Cahoon, James F ^c   Nozik, Arthur J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE INJECTION; COBALT; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROLYTES; HOLE MOBILITY; NICKEL OXIDE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; ZINC;

COBALT(II ,III) OXIDE; CONDUCTING SUBSTRATES; CORROSIVE ELECTROLYTES; DYE-SENSITIZED PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE; FLAT-BAND POTENTIALS; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; TERNARY OXIDE MATERIAL;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84949117426     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp508153j     Document Type: Article

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