Room Temperature Deposition of Crystalline Nanoporous ZnO Nanostructures for Direct Use as Flexible DSSC Photoanode

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Han, Byung Suh ^a   Caliskan, Salim ^b   Sohn, Woonbae ^a   Kim, Miyoung ^a   Lee, Jung Kun ^b   Jang, Ho Won ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Electron recombination; Pulsed laser deposition (PLD); Room temperature; Zinc oxide (ZnO)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEPOSITION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROLYTES; GLASS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC LASERS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PULSED LASERS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRON RECOMBINATIONS; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INTENSITY MODULATED VOLTAGE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYETHYLENE NAPHTHALATE; ROOM TEMPERATURE DEPOSITION; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO);

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84964765944     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-016-1437-2     Document Type: Article

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