Highly-efficient quantum dot-sensitized solar cells based on Sn doped ZnO and CuS electrodes

作者：Tan, Jie; Shen, Yue^*; Zhang, Zongkun; Wu, Qishuang; Gu, Feng; Cao, Meng; Wang, Linjun

来源：Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics , 2015, 26(4): 2145-2150.

DOI：10.1007/s10854-014-2660-1

• CO-SENSITIZATION
• THIN-FILMS
• ARRAYS

Highly efficient CdS/CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) co-sensitized solar cells based on Sn doped ZnO (Sn-ZnO) and CuS electrodes were structured. Sn-ZnO nanoparticle was prepared by hydrothermal method and investigated by X-ray diffraction and N-2 adsorption-desorption. The influence of sol-modification and printing process on the crystallinity and morphology of Sn-ZnO photoanode was investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Semiconductor QDs were grown on sol-modified Sn-ZnO (SM-Sn-ZnO) photoanode by successive ion layer absorption and reaction (SILAR) method and built quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) based on polysulfide electrolyte. Optimizing the SILAR deposition cycle, the highest conversion efficiency (eta) reached 2.07 % by co-sensitization of CdS/CdSe/ZnS, which was 37.09 % higher than SM-ZnO based QDSSCs (eta = 1.51 %) under the same condition. CuS electrode was used to replace Pt as the cheap counter electrodes of QDSSCs based on the same photoanodes, which could obviously improve the fill factor of QDSSCs and the conversion efficiency reached 3.37 %.

• 出版日期2015-4
• 单位上海大学