Glass-Encapsulated Light Harvesters: More Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Deposition of Self-Aligned, Conformal, and Self-Limited Silica Layers
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Son, Ho-Jin
Wang, Xinwei
Prasittichai, Chaiya
Jeong, Nak Cheon
Aaltonen, Titta
Hupp, Joseph T.
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Son, Ho-Jin, Xinwei Wang, Chaiya Prasittichai, Nak Cheon Jeong, Titta Aaltonen, Roy Gerald Gordon, and Joseph T. Hupp. 2012. Glass-encapsulated light harvesters: More efficient dye-sensitized solar cells by deposition of self-aligned, conformal, and self-limited silica layers. Journal of the American Chemical Society 134(23): 9537–9540.Abstract
A major loss mechanism in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is recombination at the \(TiO_2\)/electrolyte interface. Here we report a method to reduce greatly this loss mechanism. We deposit insulating and transparent silica \((SiO_2)\) onto the open areas of a nanoparticulate \(TiO_2\) surface while avoiding any deposition of \(SiO_2\) over or under the organic dye molecules. The \(SiO_2\) coating covers the highly convoluted surface of the \(TiO_2\) conformally and with a uniform thickness throughout the thousands of layers of nanoparticles. DSCs incorporating these selective and self-aligned \(SiO_2\) layers achieved a 36% increase in relative efficiency versus control uncoated cells.Terms of Use
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