Stibnite sensitized hollow cubic TiO2 photoelectrodes for organic-inorganic heterojunction solar cells

Solar Energy

Volumn 157, Issue , 2017, Pages 434-440

  Veerappan, Ganapathy ^a   Zhang, Kan ^d   Soman, Suraj ^c   Heo, Nansra ^b   Park, Jong Hyeok ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTRE FOR POWDER METALLURGY AND NEW MATERIALS ARCI   (India)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY CSIR   (India)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electron lifetime; Heterojunction solar cells; Hollow cubic TiO2; Hydrothermal synthesis; Stibnite

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; OXIDE MINERALS; PORE SIZE; PORE STRUCTURE; SULFIDE MINERALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ELECTRON LIFETIME; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HOLLOW-CUBIC TIO2; NANO-STRUCTURED ELECTRODES; ORGANIC HOLE CONDUCTORS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; STIBNITE;

TIO2 NANOPARTICLES;

ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL CELL; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOLAR POWER; STIBNITE;

EID: 85028996715     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2017.08.057     Document Type: Article

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