Enhancement of Dye-Sensitized solar cells performance by core shell Ag@organic (organic=2-nitroaniline, PVA, 4-choloroaniline and PVP): Effects of shell type on photocurrent

Ambient Facile Synthesis of Gram-Scale Copper Selenide Nanostructures from Commercial Copper and Selenium Powder

“…10 Some of these applications require large amounts of samples for testing and measuring their performance, e.g., thermoelectric measurement requires gram-scale powders for sintering a small pellet, 11,12 photovoltaic test needs tens of individual cells in a batch. [13][14][15][16][17] In the thermoelectric regime, introduction of nanoscale structures into conventional thermoelectric bulk materials has been proven to be an effective way for improvement of thermoelectric performance. For example, non-doped β-phase Cu 2 Se and Cu 2-x Se fabricated by high-temperature solid state reaction have a figure of merit, ZT, of around 1.5 at 1000 K, 18 which can be enhanced to 1.7−1.8 at 700℃ by the introduction of nanoscale precipitates through fast quenching of their liquids in the latest report.…”

Surface plasma resonance enhanced photocurrent generation in NiO photoanode based solar cells

“…The lower improvement for the nanosphere than that of nanorods may be caused by the absorption overlap between the dye N3 and nanosphere at 530 nm. In some cases, the noble metal nanoparticle is proposed to suppress the charge recombination process that arises from electrons in semiconductor film with electrolytes, and thus leads to an increase in the photocurrent [30,31]. The increase of photocurrent has also been explained by formation of a Schottky junction at the metal-metal oxide interface which could be helpful for the separation of photo-generated charges [32].…”

High efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells (9.3%) by using a new compact layer: Decrease series resistance and increase shunt resistance

“…TiO 2 P25 was deposited on FTO according to our previous works [15][16][17]. Briefly, this deposited by Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD) methods.…”