A multifunctional photoanode made of titania submicrospheres and titania nanoparticles modified titania nanotube arrays on FTO glass for dye-sensitized solar cells

作者：Qiao, Xiao-Dong; Liu, Yi-Yi; Huang, Guo-Lei; Lei, Bing-Xin^*; Sun, Wei; Sun, Zhen-Fan^*

来源：Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2017, 57: 99-104.

DOI：10.1016/j.mssp.2016.10.011

• Titania
• Nanotube
• Submicrosphere
• Hierarchical structure
• Dye-sensitized solar cell

We have proposed a novel engineered multifunctional photoanode which consists of one-dimensional (1D) TiO2 nanotube arrays modified by TiO2 nanoparticles as a bottom layer and three-dimensional (3D) TiO2 submicrospheres as a top layer by a simple one-time chemical bath deposition method. This 1D-3D bilayer photoanode simultaneously possesses the incompatible features such as high specific surface area, pronounced light-scattering ability, and fast electron transport. The novel 1D-3D bilayer photoanode demonstrates a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.93%, leading to a 26.5% increment of PCE compared with that of TiO2 bare nanotube arrays (5.48%).

• 出版日期2017-1
• 单位海南师范大学