Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 6, Issue 4, 413(2013)

High efficiency monobasal solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell with mesoporous TiO2 beads as photoanode

Heng WANG, Peng XIANG, Mi XU, Guanghui LIU, Xiong LI, Zhiliang KU, Yaoguang RONG, Linfeng LIU, Min HU, Ying YANG, and Hongwei HAN*
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  • Michael Gratzel Center for Mesoscopic Solar Cells, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    Heng WANG, Peng XIANG, Mi XU, Guanghui LIU, Xiong LI, Zhiliang KU, Yaoguang RONG, Linfeng LIU, Min HU, Ying YANG, Hongwei HAN. High efficiency monobasal solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell with mesoporous TiO2 beads as photoanode[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2013, 6(4): 413

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    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Jun. 6, 2013

    Accepted: Aug. 20, 2013

    Published Online: Mar. 3, 2014

    The Author Email: Hongwei HAN (hongwei.han@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-013-0353-7

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