320 Pages
by
EPFL Press
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Several forms of thin-film solar cells are being examined as alternatives to silicon-solar cells-one of the most promising technologies is the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC), with proven efficiencies that approach 11%. This book, which provides a comprehensive look at this promising technology, is a graduate level text that brings together the fundamentals of DSC from three perspectives (materials, performance, and mechanistic aspects). It is also an advanced monograph that summarizes the key advances and lists the technical challenges remaining to be solved.
PREFACE, 1: PHOTOCHEMICAL AND PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACHES TO ENERGY CONVERSION, 2: TITANIA IN DIVERSE FORMS AS SUBSTRATES, 3: MOLECULAR ENGINEERING OF SENSITIZERS FOR CONVERSION OF SOLAR ENERGY INTO ELECTRICITY, 4: OPTIMIZATION OF REDOX MEDIATORS AND ELECTROLYTES, 5: PHOTOSENSITIZATION OF SnO2 AND OTHER OXIDES, 6: SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS Inc.RPORATING MOLECULAR HOLE-TRANSPORTERS, 7: PACKAGING, SCALE-UP AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF DYE SOLAR CELLS, 8: HOW TO MAKE HIGH-EFFICIENCY DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS, 8: HOW TO MAKE HIGH-EFFICIENCY DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS, 10: CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS: A TOOLBOX APPROACH, 11: DYNAMICS OF INTERFACIAL AND SURFACE ELECTRON TRANSFER PROCESSES, 12: IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY: A GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION TO DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS, 13: THEORETICAL AND MODEL SYSTEM CALCULATIONS, INDEX
Biography
Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram
