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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 110, Issue 17, Pages 8544-8547Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp060979w
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Transient photovoltage and photocurrent measurements have been employed to determine the recombination and transport kinetics in operating dye-sensitized photovoltaic cells as a function of potential and temperature. Photocurrent transients have been taken at the open circuit potential, as opposed to the standard measurement at short circuit. Kinetic results have been used to calculate the activation energy as function of the Fermi level position in the TiO2. In the calculation of activation energies, we have explicitly taken into account the temperature dependence of the offset between the electrolyte redox potential and the conduction band edge. This new method gives activation energies that decrease linearly as the Fermi level position moves toward the conduction band edge, as expected, but not found in previous studies. The results are consistent with the presence of a distribution of traps below the TiO2 conduction band, the detrapping from which limits both the transport and the recombination of electrons.
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