Charge Recombination Control for High Efficiency Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Zhao ◽  
Zhenxiao Pan ◽  
Xinhua Zhong
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (29) ◽  
pp. 11416-11421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guocan Jiang ◽  
Zhenxiao Pan ◽  
Zhenwei Ren ◽  
Jun Du ◽  
Cheng Yang ◽  
...  

Poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) was used as a superior and general additive to modify the traditional polysulfide electrolyte in quantum dot sensitized solar cells and the photovoltaic performance of the constructed solar cells was significantly improved benefiting from the reduced charge recombination.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (48) ◽  
pp. 18976-18982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenxiao Pan ◽  
Xinhua Zhong

An effective composite passivation layer was developed for suppressing charge recombination and improving the performance of QDSCs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 2214-2221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Wu ◽  
Juan Hou ◽  
Haifeng Zhao ◽  
Zhiyong Liu ◽  
Xuanyu Yue ◽  
...  

ZnS as an inorganic passivation agent has been proven to be effective in suppressing charge recombination and enhancing power conversion efficiency (PCE) in quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSCs).


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (21) ◽  
pp. 8161-8171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandu V. V. M. Gopi ◽  
Mallineni Venkata-Haritha ◽  
Young-Seok Lee ◽  
Hee-Je Kim

Metal sulfide decorated with ZnO NRs (ZnO/CoS, ZnO/NiS, ZnO/CuS and ZnO/PbS) were fabricated and used as efficient CEs for QDSSCs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Li ◽  
Junying Xiao ◽  
Xichuan Yang ◽  
Wenming Zhang ◽  
Huayan Zhang ◽  
...  

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1931
Author(s):  
Hee-Je Kim ◽  
Jin-Ho Bae ◽  
Hyunwoong Seo ◽  
Masaharu Shiratani ◽  
Chandu Venkata Veera Muralee Gopi

Suppressing the charge recombination at the interface of photoanode/electrolyte is the crucial way to improve the quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) performance. In this scenario, ZnS/SiO2 blocking layer was deposited on TiO2/CuInS2 QDs to inhibit the charge recombination at photoanode/electrolyte interface. As a result, the TiO2/CuInS2/ZnS/SiO2 based QDSSCs delivers a power conversion efficiency (η) value of 4.63%, which is much higher than the TiO2/CuInS2 (2.15%) and TiO2/CuInS2/ZnS (3.23%) based QDSSCs. Impedance spectroscopy and open circuit voltage decay analyses indicate that ZnS/SiO2 passivation layer on TiO2/CuInS2 suppress the charge recombination at the interface of photoanode/electrolyte and enhance the electron lifetime.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (27) ◽  
pp. 22549-22559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenran Wang ◽  
Guocan Jiang ◽  
Juan Yu ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Zhenxiao Pan ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Suping Jia ◽  
Tong Cheng ◽  
Huinian Zhang ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Caihong Hao

Defect states in the TiO2 nanoparticles can cause severe charge recombination and poor electron-transport efficiency when used as a photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Herein, we report a simple and practical way to passivate the surface defects of TiO2 through hydrothermal treating with acetic acid and H2SO4, introducing a high percentage of 101 facets and sulfonic acid functional groups on the TiO2 surface. A high efficiency of 8.12% has been achieved, which is 14% higher than that of untreated TiO2 under the same condition. EIS results prove that the multiacid-treated TiO2 can promote electron transport and reduce charge recombination at the interface of the TiO2 and electrolyte. This work provides an efficient approach to engineer the electron-transport pathway in DSSCs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (22) ◽  
pp. 8551-8556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiqian Gao ◽  
Xiaojuan Sun ◽  
Xijia Yang ◽  
Liying Wang ◽  
Xuesong Li ◽  
...  

A key point for constructing quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) with high efficiency is to improve the utilization of sunlight.


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