Unravel the impact of anchoring groups on the photovoltaic performances of diketopyrrolopyrrole sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2389-2396

  Ganesan, Paramaguru ^a,b   Yella, Aswani ^a,e   Holcombe, Thomas W ^a   Gao, Peng ^a   Rajalingam, Renganathan ^b   Al Muhtaseb, Shaheen A ^c   Grätzel, Michael ^a   Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja ^a,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Qatar University   (Qatar)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Anchoring group; Cyanoacrylic acid; Diketopyrrolopyrrole; Dye sensitized solar cells; Tio2

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; RED SHIFT; SHIMS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ANCHORING GROUPS; DIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLES; LIGHT HARVESTING PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; TIO2;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84991467182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00332     Document Type: Article

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