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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 19, Pages 3915-3922Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01692
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- IISER Pune
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) [SR/S2/RJN-61/2012]
- Govt. of India [SB/FT/CS-151/2012]
- CSIR, Govt. of India
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Colloidal Ag2S nanocrystals (NCs) typically do not exhibit sharp excitonic absorption and emission. We first elucidate the reason behind this problem by preparing Ag2S NCs from nearly monodisperse CdS NCs employing cation exchange reaction. It was found that the defect-related midgap transitions overlap with excitonic transition, blurring the absorption spectrum. On the basis of this observation, we prepared nearly defect-free Ag2S NCs using molecular precursors. These defect-free Ag2S NCs exhibit sharp excitonic absorption, emission (quantum yield 20%) in near-infrared (853 nm) region, and improved performance of Ag2S quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs). Samples with lower defects exhibit photoconversion efficiencies >1% and open circuit voltage of similar to 0.3 V, which are better compared with prior reports of Ag2S QDSSCs. Femtosecond transient absorption shows pump probe two-photon absorption above 630 nm and slow-decaying excited state absorption below 600 nm. Concomitantly, open-aperture z-scan shows strong two-photon absorption at 532 nm (coefficient 55 +/- 3 cm/GW).
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