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Title Dye-sensitized solar cells : mathematical modeling, and materials design and optimization / edited by Masoud Soroush, Kenneth K.S. Lau
Published London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 454 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Cover; Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Overview of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells; 1.1 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Within the Energy Context; 1.2 General Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Design; 1.3 Current State of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells; 1.4 Optimization of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells; 1.4.1 Semiconductor Oxide Electrode; 1.4.2 Dye Sensitizer; 1.4.3 Redox Electrolyte; 1.4.4 Hole Transport Material; 1.4.5 Counter Electrode; 1.5 Mathematical Modeling of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells; 1.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References
2 Mathematical Modeling of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Overview of Device Physics; 2.3 Photogeneration; 2.3.1 Beer-Lambert Law; 2.3.2 Panchromatic Sensitizers; 2.4 Charge Transport; 2.4.1 Diffusion and Recombination; 2.4.2 Drift and Diffusion; 2.4.2.1 Continuity Equation; 2.4.2.2 Transport Equation; 2.4.2.3 Boundary Conditions; 2.4.3 Beyond One Dimension; 2.5 Multiple Trapping and Hopping Transition; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3 Insights Into Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells From Macroscopic-Scale First-Principles Mathematical Modeling; 3.1 Introduction
3.2 DSSC Macroscopic-Scale Mathematical Modeling3.3 Components of a Macroscopic-Scale DSSC Model; 3.3.1 Equivalent Circuit of a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell; 3.3.2 Electrochemical Processes; 3.3.3 Concentration Overpotential (Mass-Transfer Resistances); 3.3.4 Electron Recombination Rate; 3.3.5 Electron Generation Rate; 3.3.6 Triiodide, Iodide, and Cation Generation and Consumption Rates; 3.3.7 Charged Species Transport; 3.3.8 Dark-Equilibrium Conditions; 3.3.9 Boundary and Initial Conditions; 3.3.10 Dimensionless Variables; 3.4 Numerical Solution of the Model Equations
3.4.1 Steady-State Behavior3.4.2 Dynamic Behavior; 3.5 Effect of the Electric Field; 3.6 Effect of Recombination Rate Equation Type; 3.7 Parametric Sensitivity Analysis; 3.8 Effect of Irradiance; 3.9 Effect of Dye Type; 3.10 Effect of Temperature; 3.11 Transient Responses; 3.12 Effect of Polymer-Electrolyte Chemistry; 3.12.1 Dye-sensitized solar cell Fabrication and Experimental Performance Evaluation; 3.12.2 Polymer-Electrolyte Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Macroscopic-Scale Model; 3.12.3 Parameter Estimation; 3.13 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notation; References
4 Charge Separation: From the Topology of Molecular Electronic Transitions to the Dye/Semiconductor Interfacial Energetics ... 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Topology of Molecular Electronic Transitions; 4.2.1 Background: State Density Matrix and Charge Density; 4.2.2 Qualitative Analysis of Photoinduced Electronic Structure Reorganization; 4.2.2.1 Density-Based Strategies; 4.2.2.1.1 State Densities; 4.2.2.1.2 Charge Displacement Analysis; 4.2.2.1.3 Detachment/Attachment Densities; 4.2.2.1.4 Transition Densities; 4.2.2.2 Wave Function-Based Strategies; 4.2.2.2.1 Spinorbitals Analysis
Summary Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Mathematical Modelling and Materials Design and Optimization presents the latest information as edited from leaders in the field. It covers advances in DSSC design, fabrication and mathematical modelling and optimization, providing a comprehensive coverage of various DSSC advances that includes different system scales, from electronic to macroscopic level, and a consolidation of the results with fundamentals. The book is extremely useful as a monograph for graduate students and researchers, but is also a comprehensive, general reference on state-of-the-art techniques in modelling, optimization and design of DSSCs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2019)
Subject Dye-sensitized solar cells.
Dye-sensitized solar cells -- Design and construction
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
Dye-sensitized solar cells
Form Electronic book
Author Soroush, Masoud, editor.
Lau, Kenneth K. S., 1972- editor.
ISBN 9780128145425
0128145420