Amorphous TiO2 Buffer Layer Boosts Efficiency of Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells to over 9%

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 8398-8405

  Ren, Zhenwei ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Pan, Zhenxiao ^a   Zhao, Ke ^a   Zhang, Hua ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Zhao, Yixin ^b   Mora Sero, Ivan ^c   Bisquert, Juan ^c,d   Zhong, Xinhua ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; ELECTRODE/ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ONE-SUN ILLUMINATION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE DECAYS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84951796242     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03864     Document Type: Article

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