Direct photocurrent generation from nitrogen doped TiO2 electrodes in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells: Towards optically-active metal oxides for photovoltaic applications

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 117, Issue , 2013, Pages 624-631

  Melhem, Hussein ^a   Simon, Pardis ^b   Wang, Jin ^b   Di Bin, Catherine ^a   Ratier, Bernard ^a   Leconte, Yann ^b   Herlin Boime, Nathalie ^b   Makowska Janusik, Malgorzata ^c   Kassiba, Abdelhadi ^d   Bouclé, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c JAN DLUGOSZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Density functional theory (DFT); Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR); Laser pyrolysis; Nitrogen doping; Solid state dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC); TiO2 Nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LASER THEORY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; METALS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NITROGEN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETISM; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PYROLYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCES (EPR); ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; LASER PYROLYSIS; NITROGEN-DOPING; PHOTOCATALYTIC MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85008151934     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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