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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 106, Issue 50, Pages 12957-12964Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp021484j
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Near-IR absorption spectra of electrons injected from excited sensitizer dyes to nanocrystalline ZnO films have been studied. The absorption steeply increases with increasing wavelength and can be assigned to the optical transition of conducting electrons to higher energy levels of the conduction band. From the measurements in various sensitizer dyes, the relative efficiencies of the electron injection can be obtained as a function of the free energy change (DeltaG) for the electron injection process. Around DeltaG = 0 eV, the efficiencies increase gradually with increasing -DeltaG and they are constant at negative DeltaG. We succeeded in explaining the tendency by considering the site heterogeneity of the surface. The relation between the injection efficiencies and the solar cell performance will also be discussed.
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