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NANOSCALE
卷 9, 期 20, 页码 6711-6715出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7nr01008g
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51402071, 51672061]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [AUGA5710052614, AUGA8880100415, HIT. BRETIV.201503]
- International Scientific and Technological Cooperation projects [2014DFA50740]
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [51325201]
The inability to utilize near infrared (NIR) light has posed a stringent limitation for the efficiencies of most single-junction photovoltaic cells such as dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Here, we describe a strategy to alleviate the NIR light harvesting problem by upconverting non-responsive NIR light in a broad spectral range (over 190 nm, 670-860 nm) to narrow solar-cell-responsive visible emissions through incorporated dye-sensitized upconversion nanoparticles (DSUCNPs). Unlike typically reported UCNPs with narrow and low NIR absorption, the organic dyes (IR783) anchored on the DSUCNP surface were able to harvest NIR photons broadly and efficiently, and then transfer the harvested energy to the inorganic UCNPs (typically reported), entailing an efficient visible upconversion. We show that the incorporation of DSUCNPs into the TiO2 photoanode of a DSSC is able to elevate its efficiency from 7.573% to 8.568%, enhancing the power conversion efficiency by about 13.1%. We quantified that among the relative efficiency increase, 7.1% arose from the contribution of broad-band upconversion in DSUCNPs (about similar to 3.4 times higher than the highest previously reported value of similar to 2.1%), and 6.0% mainly from the scattering effect of DSUCNPs. Our strategy has immediate implications for the use of DSUCNPs to improve the performance of other types of photovoltaic devices.
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