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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 115, Issue 24, Pages 12209-12215Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp201178a
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- Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), Singapore [072 134 0054]
- Institute for Clean Energy & Advanced Materials, Southwest University, China
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A p-type semiconductor photoelectrode in dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs) has a large optical band gap and high ionization potential but suffers from its intrinsically low hole transfer rate, thus resulting in much poorer performance than n-DSCs. Nickel oxide (NiO)/graphene composite is synthesized to offer a larger surface area and higher conductivity than the pristine NiO film. The novel composite as a photoelectrode in p-DSCs demonstrates increment of both short-circuit photocurrent and open-circuit photovoltage, leading to 2 times increase of power conversion efficiency. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and open-circuit voltage decay measurements indicate that the charge recombination of the composite-based p-DSCs is significantly suppressed due to enhanced hole transport by the presence of graphene, thus achieving an efficient electron bole pair charge separation and collection in the composite film electrode for performance-improved NiO-based devices. The Proposed mechanism provides physical insight into the enhancement process in p-DSCs.
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