Charge Recombination Dynamics in Sensitized SnO2/TiO2 Core/Shell Photoanodes

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 51, 2015, Pages 28353-28360

  Knauf, Robin R ^a   Kalanyan, Berç ^b   Parsons, Gregory N ^b   Dempsey, Jillian L ^a  

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

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANNEALING; ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; CHROMOPHORES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYNAMICS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CORE/SHELL MATERIALS; CORE/SHELL STRUCTURE; INTERFACIAL CHARGE; RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; TUNNELING MECHANISM;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84952885974     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b10574     Document Type: Article

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