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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 538, Issue -, Pages 61-65Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2012.05.068
Keywords
Semiconductors sensitized solar cells; Sonication-assisted sequential chemical bath deposition; TiO2 nanotube arrays; CdS nanoparticles
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB934300]
- Shanghai City Committee of Science and Technology [11ZR1412700, AM 08520741600]
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [61006089]
- Innovation Program of Shanghai University [SHUCX112254, SHUCX112224]
- Cooperation Fund of Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, and Shanghai Leading Academic Disciplines [S30107]
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CdS nanoparticles sensitized TiO2 nanotube arrays photoanode for semiconductors sensitized solar cells (SSSCs) were prepared by sonication-assisted sequential chemical bath deposition (SSCBD) approach and labeled as S-CdS/TNTAs. The S-CdS/TNTAs solar cell was assembled into a typical sandwich structure with backside illumination. Short-circuit current density (J(sc)), open circuit potential (V-oc), fill factor (FF) and power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the cells under AM 1.5 irradiation were about 4.16 mA cm(-2), 446 mV, 43.9% and 0.814%, respectively. Compared with classical sequential chemical bath deposition (SCBD), SSCBD process could effectively prevent CdS nanoparticles aggregating at the top surface of TNTAs and resulted in an increase of PCE by 65.8%. Increased performance of S-CdS/TNTAs solar cell may be attributed to the more efficient charge-transfer process and the lower charge recombination, as evidenced from FESEM and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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