Solar cells based on cyanine and polymethine dyes

Organic Photovoltaics: Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 313-330

  Tian, He ^a   Meng, Fanshun ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cyanine; Dye; Polymethine; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYEING; DYES; HEAVY METALS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

4-TERT-BUTYLPYRIDINE; CYANINE; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; NANOCRYSTALLINE TIO2; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; OVERALL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; POLYMETHINE; SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84992732543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420026351     Document Type: Chapter

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