Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 195, Issue 19, Pages 6937-6940Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.04.081
Keywords
Dye-sensitized solar cell; Rare-earth-doped oxide; Conversion luminescence; p-Type doping
Funding
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China [2009AA03Z217]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [90922028]
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The doped rare-earth oxide europium-doped yttria (Y2O3:Eu3+) is introduced into the TiO2 film electrode in a dye-sensitized solar cell. As a luminescence medium, Y2O3:Eu3+ improves the light harvesting via a conversion luminescence process and increases the photocurrent, as a p-type dopant, Y2O3:Eu3+ elevates the energy level of the oxide film and increases the photovoltage. When the TiO2 electrode is doped by 3 wt.% Y2O3:Eu3+, the cell light-to-electric conversion efficiency is improved by a factor of 1.14 compared to that of a cell without Y2O3:Eu3+ doping. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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