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Core-shell cadmium sulphide @ silver sulphide nanowires surface architecture: Design towards photoelectrochemical solar cells

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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
卷 587, 期 -, 页码 715-726

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.11.031

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Core-shell assembly; Nanowires; Cation exchange, photoelectrochemical solar cells

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  1. SERB, Govt of India [EMR/2016/005291]

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The design and development of cadmium sulphide core with silver sulphide shell assembly on nanowire surface shows improved performance in photoelectrochemical solar cell applications. The optimized CdS NWs/Ag2S core shell structure exhibits significant enhancements in terms of photocurrent density, photocurrent transient response, and photo stability.
Design and development of cadmium sulphide core with silver sulphide shell assembly in nanowire (NWs) surface architecture has been explored through room temperature, simple chemical route towards photoelectrochemical solar cell application. Incorporation of low band gap Ag2S nanoparticles over the outer surface of the chemical bath deposited CdS NWs has been achieved by simple cation exchange route based on negative free energy of formation. Shell optimization has been performed by investigating structure, surface morphologies and optical analyses and correlated with the photovoltaic parameters. Interestingly, core-shell CdS NWs/ Ag2S exhibits 1.5 better performance in terms of linear voltammetry, photocurrent transient response and the photo stability than bare CdS. Furthermore, three-fold enhancement in photoelectrochemical conversion efficiency have been observed for optimized FTO/ CdS NWs/ Ag2S compared to bare FTO/CdS NWs due to the augmented light harvesting and condensed charge recombination. External quantum efficiency exhibits 24% for the optimized CdS NWs/ Ag2S core shell structure. Mott-Schottky and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements have been used for better understanding the impact of gradual growth of Ag2S over CdS NWs which directly influences the overall photocurrent density of the devices. (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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