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Improved photocurrents for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells using nano-structured nickel(II) oxide microballs

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 10, Pages 8896-8900

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2ee22127f

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  1. Australian Research Council through an Australian Research Fellowship
  2. LIEF programs
  3. Victorian State Government Department of Primary Industry (SERD Program, Victorian Organic Solar Cells Consortium)
  4. Victorian Science Agenda (VSA)
  5. Australia-Germany Solar Photovoltaics Research Program
  6. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization through an OCE Science Leader position
  7. NSFC [20873057]
  8. German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  9. German Science Foundation (DFG) in the frame of a Collaborative Research Center (SFB) [569]

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Highly crystalline nanostructured nickel(II) oxide microballs (NiO-mu Bs) were developed for use in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (p-DSC). Their high specific surface area and favorable optical properties yielded unprecedented photocurrent densities of 7.0 mA cm(-2) under simulated sunlight (AM1.5; 1000 W m(-2)) and incident photon to charge carrier conversion efficiencies of 74% when applied in p-DSCs. This is an important step towards matching the performance of p-DSCs with their n-type counterparts for future tandem applications.

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