High performance CdS quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells with Ti-based ceramic materials as catalysts on the counter electrode

Min Hsin Yeh; Lu Yin Lin; Chuan Pei Lee; Chen Yu Chou; Keng Wei Tsai; Jiann T.Suen Lin; Kuo Chuan Ho

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.02.092

High performance CdS quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells with Ti-based ceramic materials as catalysts on the counter electrode

Min Hsin Yeh
, Lu Yin Lin
, Chuan Pei Lee
, Chen Yu Chou
, Keng Wei Tsai
, Jiann T.Suen Lin
, Kuo Chuan Ho

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

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Abstract

Titanium-based ceramic nanoparticles, i.e., titanium nitride nanoparticles (TiN-NPs) and titanium carbide nanoparticles (TiC-NPs), are used on counter electrodes (CEs) for quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs). The QDSSC with TiC-NPs-CE exhibits the highest solar-to-electricity conversion efficiency (η) of 2.11 ± 0.06%, which is higher than that of the cell with sputtered-Au-CE (1.64 ± 0.06%). This is due to the higher electrocatalytic ability of the TiC-NPs for reducing the polysulfide (S _x^2-) ions and the lower charge-transfer resistance at the interface of the CE and the electrolyte. Meanwhile, the three-dimensional structure of the Ti-based ceramic materials also acts as an extended charge-transfer surface, which facilitates electron transfer on the CE toward S_x^2- ions. Explanations are substantiated by cyclic voltammetry (CV), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE) curves.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	141-148
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Power Sources
Volume	237
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.02.092
State	Published - 2013

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This work was supported in part by the National Science Council of Taiwan , under grant numbers NSC 100-2221-E-002-242-MY2 and NSC 100-3113-E-008-003 . Some of the instruments used in this study were made available through the financial support of the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan , under grant number AS-100-TP-A05 .

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Keywords

Cadmium sulfide
Counter electrode
Electrocatalytic ability
Quantum-dot-sensitized solar cell
Ti-based ceramic materials

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