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Advances in OptoElectronics
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 824927, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/824927
Research Article

F e S 𝟐 -Quantum-Dot Sensitized Metal Oxide Photoelectrodes: Photoelectrochemistry and Photoinduced Absorption Spectroscopy

Idriss Bedja1 and Anders Hagfeldt2

1CRC, Department of Optometry, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 10219, Riyadh 11433, Saudi Arabia
2Department of Physical Chemistry, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 259, 75105 Uppsala, Sweden

Received 15 June 2011; Accepted 5 September 2011

Academic Editor: Surya Prakash Singh

Copyright © 2011 Idriss Bedja and Anders Hagfeldt. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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