Hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanowires scaffolds within mesoporous TiO2 photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells with enhanced efficiency

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 196, Issue , 2016, Pages 348-356

  Yang, Yana ^a   Zhao, Jiahuan ^a   Cui, Can ^a   Zhang, Yichao ^a   Hu, Haihua ^b   Xu, Lingbo ^a   Pan, Jiaqi ^a   Li, Chaorong ^a   Tang, Weihua ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY CITY COLLEGE   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; electron transport; light scattering; TiO2 based nanocomposite; ZnO nanowires

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FILM THICKNESS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOWIRES; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; FAST ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH; LARGE SURFACE AREA; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SITU HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; ZNO NANOWIRES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84962238605     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.03.022     Document Type: Article

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