Hybrid Titania Photoanodes with a Nanostructured Multi-Layer Configuration for Highly Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
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- 作者：Hui-Ping Wu ; Chi-Ming Lan ; Jyun-Yu Hu ; Wei-Kai Huang ; Jia-Wei Shiu ; Zih-Jian Lan ; Cheng-Ming Tsai ; Chun-Hsien Su ; Eric Wei-Guang Diau
- 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- 出版年：2013
- 出版时间：May 2, 2013
- 年：2013
- 卷：4
- 期：9
- 页码：1570-1577
- 全文大小：549K
- 年卷期：v.4,no.9(May 2, 2013)
- ISSN：1948-7185
文摘
To construct a hybrid titania photoanode containing nanoparticles and nanorods of varied size in a multilayer (ML) configuration for dye-sensitized solar cells, the essence of our ML design is a bilayer system with additional layers of nanorods of well-controlled size inserted between the transparent and the scattering layers to enhance the light-harvesting capability for photosensitizers with small absorptivity, such as Z907. We measured charge-extraction and intensity-modulated photoelectric spectra to show the advantages of one-dimensional nanorods with an improved electron-transport property and an upward shift of the potential band edge; a favorable ML configuration was constructed to have a cascade potential feature for feasible electron transport from long nanorods, to normal nanorods, to small nanoparticles. On the basis of the ML system reported herein, we demonstrate how the performance of a Z907 device is improved to attain 畏 10%, which is a milestone for its future commercialization.