The influence of linker molecule on photovoltaic performance of CdS quantum dots sensitized translucent TiO₂ nanotube solar cells

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• 作者：Libo Yu ; Zhen Li ; Hai Song
• 刊名：Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：28
• 期：3
• 页码：2867-2876
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Optical and Electronic Materials; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-482X
• 卷排序：28

文摘

Based on translucent TiO₂ nanotube (NT) film, CdS quantum dots (QDs) were anchored onto TiO₂ NT film using different linker molecules including thioglycolic acid (TGA), mercaptopropionic acid (MPA) and cysteine via hydrothermal method. The CdS QDs sensitized TiO₂ NT (CdS/TiO₂ NT) electrodes were constructed to quantum dots-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs). The photovoltaic performance analysis results of the QDSSCs show that the linker molecule plays a significant role in the solar cell performance. The QDSSC using cysteine as linker molecule exhibits best power conversion efficiency than the other QDSSCs using TGA or MPA as linker molecules. The incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE) and the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) analysis results indicate that amino group of cysteine may has two aspects of the role to improve the power conversion efficiency of the QDSSC, one is that the good charge transfer properties of the cysteine might depend on the good donor–acceptor abilities of the free electron pair of the amino group, another is that distance between the TiO₂ NT and the CdS QDs could be slightly decreased due to the cysteine could anchor the CdS QDs via both amino and thiol group.