Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages 4420-4425Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn1010396
Keywords
TiO2; beads; C101 dye; dye-sensitized solar cells; DSC
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- EU [212792]
- Australian Research Council
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Dye-sensitized solar cells employing mesoporous TiO2 beads have demonstrated longer electron diffusion lengths and extended electron lifetimes over Degussa P25 titania electrodes due to the well interconnected, densely packed nanocrystalline TiO2 particles inside the beads. Careful selection of the dye to match the dye photon absorption characteristics with the light scattering properties of the beads have improved the light harvesting and conversion efficiency of the bead electrode in the dye-sensitized solar cell. This has resulted in a solar to electric power conversion efficiency (PCE) of greater than 10% (10.6% for Ru(II)-based dye C101 and 10.7% using C106) for the first time using a single screen-printed titania layer cell construction (that is, without an additional scattering layer).
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