Titanium mesh based fully flexible highly efficient quantum dots sensitized solar cells

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 5577-5584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhonglin Du ◽  
Mingdian Liu ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Yanxue Chen ◽  
Xinhua Zhong

Benefiting from the in situ growth of ZnO/ZnSe/CdSe heterojunction photoanodes with effective light harvesting capacity and the highly catalytic activity of MC/Ti CEs, flexible Ti mesh-based QDSCs were assembled successfully and exhibited a new efficiency record for flexible QDSCs with champion PCE of 5.08%.

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (47) ◽  
pp. 11118-11128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenwu Liu ◽  
Hui-gang Wang ◽  
Xiaofei Wang ◽  
Mei Zhang ◽  
Min Guo

TiO2 nanowire arrays/2.4 mol% Nb-doped TiO2 nanoparticles composites were synthesized on Ti-mesh substrates using a hydrothermal approach for fully flexible dye-sensitized solar cells that exhibited good 7.20% conversion efficiency.


RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (84) ◽  
pp. 44555-44562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jongbeom Na ◽  
Jeonghun Kim ◽  
Chihyun Park ◽  
Eunkyoung Kim

TiO2photoanodes for I2-free solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ssDSSCs) were prepared from multifunctional new TiO2nanostructures to enhance light harvesting and charge collection efficiency in ssDSSCs using poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)s (PEDOTs).


2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin-Li Wang ◽  
Jyun-Yu Hu ◽  
Cheng-Hua Wu ◽  
Hshin-Hui Kuo ◽  
Yu-Cheng Chang ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 044313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung Woo Jung ◽  
Jae-Hong Kim ◽  
Hyunsoo Kim ◽  
Chel-Jong Choi ◽  
Kwang-Soon Ahn

2010 ◽  
Vol 451 ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Imahori

Recently, dye-sensitized solar cells have attracted much attention relevant to global environmental issues. So far ruthenium(II) bipyridyl complexes have proven to be the most efficient TiO2 sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells. However, the highest power conversion efficiency has been stagnated in recent years. More importantly, considering that ruthenium is rare and expensive, novel dyes without metal or using inexpensive metal are desirable for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells. To fulfill the requirement, it is crucial to develop inexpensive novel dyes that exhibit high efficiencies in terms of light-harvesting, charge separation, and charge collection. Porphyrins are important classes of potential sensitizers for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells owing to their photostability and potentially high light-harvesting capabilities that would allow applications in thinner, low-cost dye-sensitized solar cells. However, typical porphyrins possess an intense Soret band at 400 nm and moderate Q bands at 600 nm, which does not match solar energy distribution on the earth. Therefore, the unmatched light-harvesting property relative to the ruthenium complexes has limited the cell performance of porphyrin-sensitized TiO2 cells. Elongation of the -conjugation and loss of symmetry in porphyrins cause broadening and red-shift of the absorption bands together with an increasing intensity of the Q bands relative to that of the Soret band. On the basis of the strategy, the cell performance of porphyrin-sensitized solar cells has been improved remarkably by the enhanced light absorption. The efficiency of porphyrin-sensitized solar cells could be improved significantly if the dyes with larger red and near-infrared absorption could be developed.


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