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Fabrication of micro/nano-composite porous TiO2 electrodes for quantum dot-sensitized solar cells

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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
卷 253, 期 -, 页码 17-26

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.12.033

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Titanium dioxide; Polystyrene sphere; Quantum dots-sensitized solar cell; Micro/nano-composite structure; Light scattering

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  1. Natural Science Foundation of China [61176056, 91123019]
  2. International Collaboration Program
  3. 13115 Innovation Engineering Project of Shaanxi Province [2013KW-12-05, 2010ZDKG-58]
  4. Institute of Photonics and Photo-Technology, Provincial Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Technology, Northwest University, China

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For colloidal quantum dots-sensitized solar cells (QDSSC), the penetration and distribution of quantum dots (QDs) within electrodes is very crucial for performance improvement. In view of much bigger size of colloidal QDs than that of dye molecules, a TiO2 electrode with open structure is helpful for the distribution of QDs. In this study, micro/nano-composite porous TiO2 electrodes are fabricated by incorporating polystyrene (PS) spheres into the TiO2 screen-printing paste. After sintering, the embedded PS spheres are burnt off, leaving randomly distributed submicrometer voids in the electrodes, which favor easy penetration of the colloidal CdSe QDs within the TiO2 electrodes, and thus avoiding the unfavorable clogging of pores by CdSe QDs. In addition, this kind of composite structure enhances the scattering properties of the electrodes and hence the light capture inside the device. In order to obtain optimized devices, we probe into the influence of the PS concentration on the photovoltaic performance. The result shows that a maximum conversion efficiency of 2.23% is obtained for the QDSSC made from the PS:TiO2 = 1:4 paste. Crown Copyright (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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