Interplay between dye coverage and photovoltaic performances of dye-sensitized solar cells based on organic dyes

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 20184-20192

  Sewvandi, Galhenage A ^a   Chen, Changdong ^a   Ishii, Tomohiko ^a   Kusunose, Takafumi ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakanishi, Shunsuke ^a   Feng, Qi ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; MOLECULES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION CONSTANT; ADSORPTION DENSITIES; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MESOPOROUS ELECTRODES; OPEN-CIRCUIT POTENTIAL; PHOTOVOLTAIC MEASUREMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT DENSITIES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84949117836     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5058397     Document Type: Article

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