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Achieving a superior electrocatalytic activity of carbon cloth via atomic layer deposition as a flexible counter electrode for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
摘要： Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is appealing to renewable energy communities because of its attractive features of low cost, facile assembly and short energy payback time. Nevertheless, the commonly used platinum as the counter electrode (CE) encounters great difficulties in its scarcity and noble nature. Herein, we demonstrate a promising and facile route to attain an earth-abundant, high-conductivity Pt-free flexible CE with the controllable catalytic activity via the atomic layer deposition (ALD) of ZnO as the nanoscale sacrificial template. Our result reveals the electrocatalytic activity of carbon cloth as a function of surface morphology can be successfully tailored by the ALD cycle. It can be ascribed to the interplay of ZnO and carbon during carbothermic reduction, offering the synergetic effects of the defects and oxygen doping on the carbon cloth surface as the enhanced catalytic sites for the regeneration of triiodide into iodide. As a proof of concept, the DSSC using the activated carbon cloth via ALD is enabled to deliver a boosted conversion efficiency by 79%, as compared with that using pristine carbon cloth. Such a promising route can open up a perspective for reaching an earth-abundant, high-conductivity carbon-based flexible CE with the superior catalytic activity for the photoelectrochemical cells.
关键词： Pt-free counter electrode,Dye-sensitized solar cell,Carbon cloth,Atomic layer deposition,ZnO
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Embedding of WO3 nanocrystals with rich oxygen-vacancies in solution processed perovskite film for improved photovoltaic performance
摘要： Seeking strategies of promoting the charge separation and transport of the photo-active layer has been always of significance for the development of high-performance optoelectronic devices. We herein demonstrate an effective way of decorating WO3 nanocrystals in perovskite films for boosted photogenerated carriers transport. The WO3 nanocrystals are generated by a simple technique of pulsed laser irradiation in liquid, then introduced into the perovskite film based on the anti-solvent approach. Such decoration is found helpful for the increase of the short-circuit current density (Jsc) of the device, which leads to the increase of the photoconversion efficiency (PCE) from 17.72% to 19.29%. The improved PCE is mainly due to the decoration of the WO3 at the grain boundaries of perovskite films that facilitates the charge transport between the adjacent grains, which is evidenced by the quenching of the film photoluminescence, shortened carrier lifetime, and increased carrier mobility. We thus believe our study provides an effective way of embedding ordinary metal oxides in perovskite films for enhanced optoelectronic performance.
关键词： Hybrid perovskite solar cell,Pulsed laser irradiation in liquid,WO3 nanocrystals,Charge transport,Oxygen-vacancy
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Fabrication of perovskite solar cells in ambient conditions
摘要： Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are currently a centre of attraction for their excellent photovoltaic properties and low fabrication cost. The ef?ciency of PSCs has reached up to 25% which is comparable to silicon-based solar cells, making them the fastest improving photovoltaic technology. All state-of-the-art PSCs are usually fabricated in inert environment conditions such as in nitrogen-?lled glovebox. In this study, we have fabricated well known conventional n-i-p and inverted p-i-n structures of PSCs having methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) as a perovskite photoactive layer in ambient conditions and provided a comparative study on their photovoltaic properties. The highest power conversion ef?ciency (PCE) for n-i-p and p-i-n structures were found to be 16.79% and 8.06% respectively under AM 1.5 G one-sun illumination conditions (100 mW-cm?2). In addition, to investigate the device stability, the variation of short-circuit current density (JSC) under continuous illumination on both structures has been investigated.
关键词： Ambient conditions,MAPbI3,N-i-p,P-i-n,Perovskite solar cell
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Simulation and optimization of CH3NH3SnI3 based inverted perovskite solar cell with NiO as Hole transport material
摘要： A planar perovskite solar cell (PSC) with p-i-n inverted structure is modeled and simulated using SCAPS software to determine the power output characteristics under illumination. The inverted structure is NiO/CH3NH3SnI3/PCBM where NiO is the hole transport layer (HTL), CH3NH3SnI3 is the perovskite absorber layer and PCBM is the electron transport layer (ETL). Simulation efforts are focused on thickness of three layers, defect density of interfaces, density of states, and metal work function effect on power conversion ef?ciency (PCE) of solar cell. For optimum parameters of all three layers, ef?ciency of 22.95% has been achieved. From the simulations, an alternate lead free inverted perovskite solar cell is introduced.
关键词： Electron transport material,Transparent conducting oxide,Inverted perovskite solar cell,Hole transport material,Device simulation,Defect density
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Influence of Surface Modifier Molecular Structures on the Photovoltaic Performance of Sb <sub/>2</sub> S <sub/>3</sub> Sensitized TiO <sub/>2</sub> Nanorod Array Solar Cells
摘要： In this paper, Sb2S3 sensitized TiO2 nanorod arrays are prepared by the pyrolysis of 1.2 M antimony-thiourea complex solution in DMF at 270 ℃ for 10 min. Various surface modifiers with different functional groups and carbon numbers of C10H21PO3H2, C12H25SO3Na, C3H7COOH, C5H11COOH, C7H15COOH, C11H23COOH, C13H27COOH, C15H31COOH and C17H35COOH are applied to modify Sb2S3 sensitized TiO2 nanorod arrays. The corresponding solar cells are fabricated, and their photovoltaic performances are evaluated. To the different functional group surface modifiers, the improvement of functional group on photovoltaic performance is the order of -COOH > -PO3H2 > -SO3Na. To the different carbon number (4-18) surface modifiers, RCOOH with carbon number range of 8-12 exhibit better photovoltaic performance. Moreover, the Sb2S3 sensitized TiO2 nanorod array solar cells with C11H23COOH achieve the best photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE) of 5.37 % with the open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 0.53 V, short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 16.98 mA?cm-2, fill factor (FF) of 60.66 % and the average PCE of 5.11±0.21 % with the Voc of 0.52±0.01 V, Jsc of 16.65±0.24 mA?cm-2, FF of 58.93±1.21 %. The PCE of 5.37 % corresponding to the use of spiro-OMeTAD as the hole transporting material is a relatively high PCE for Sb2S3 solar cells.
关键词： spiro-OMeTAD,Sb2S3 sensitized TiO2 nanorod array,solar cell,surface modifier
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Development of additive-assisted Ag-MACE for multicrystalline black Si solar cells
摘要： The uniform distribution of silver nanoparticles on the surfaces of diamond-wire sawn multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) is critical for the texturing of mc-Si by the Ag metal-assisted chemical etching method (Ag-MACE). In this study, an additive containing alkylphenol polyoxyethylene is developed to improve the Ag-MACE process. It enables an even deposition of the silver nanoparticles over the surface of the silicon wafer, so that the entire wafer surface can be uniformly textured with nanostructures. The experimental results show that the additive improves the appearance and performance of solar cells, including their reflectivity, efficiency, internal quantum efficiency and external quantum efficiency. Mass-produced mc-Si solar cells textured using Ag-MACE with this additive have achieved a maximum efficiency of 19.51%, compared with an efficiency of 19.16% for cells fabricated without the additive.
关键词： metal-assisted chemical etching,additive,diamond wire saw,uniform textures,solar cell,multicrystalline silicon
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Surface Ligands Management for Efficient CsPbBrI <sub/>2</sub> Perovskite Nanocrystal Solar Cells
摘要： CsPbX3 (X= Cl, Br, I) inorganic perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) not only maintain the excellent optical and electronic properties of bulk material but also possess the features of nano-materials, such as tunable bandgap, easily processable colloidal ink, enable them to be suitable for incorporation into various electronic devices and compatible with printing techniques. In contrast to the traditional II-VI and III-V semiconductor nanocrystals, the unique defect-tolerance effect makes the CsPbX3 PNCs very promising materials for optoelectronic applications. The ligands around the NCs play a critical role on the optoelectronic devices performance. Here, through a facile hexane/ethyl acetate (MeOAc) solvent treatment method to control the ligand amount around the CsPbBrI2 PNCs, we systematically demonstrated the impact of ligand amount on the performance of solar cell devices and first quantify the ligand amount precisely by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) internal standard method. Through controlling the ligand amount, the film quality, charge transfer and transport properties are largely improved. In addition, a simple annealing process is applied to improve the interface properties by partial crystal fusion. As a consequence, the photovoltaic power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 12.2% is achieved by employing a n-i-p device structure, which is the highest performance of mixed-halide CsPbX3 NCs solar cells. This work emphasizes the important role of ligand amount on the NCs device performance.
关键词： ligand amount control,CsPbBrI2,solar cell,inorganic perovskite,nanocrystals
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Micro-cracks detection of solar cells surface via combining short-term and long-term deep features
摘要： The machine vision based methods for micro-cracks detection of solar cells surface have become one of the main research directions with its efficiency and convenience. The existed methods are roughly classified into two categories: current viewing information based methods, prior knowledge based methods, however, the former usually adopt hand-designed features with poor generality and lacks the guidance of prior knowledge, the latter are usually implemented through the machine learning, and the generalization ability is also limited since the large-scale annotation dataset is scarce. To resolve above problems, a novel micro-cracks detection method via combining short-term and long-term deep features is proposed in this paper. The short-term deep features which represent the current viewing information are learned from the input image itself through stacked denoising auto encoder (SDAE), the long-term deep features which represent the prior knowledge are learned from a large number of natural scene images that people often see through convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The subjective and objective evaluations demonstrate that: 1) the performance of combing the short-term and long-term deep features is better than any of them alone, 2) the performance of proposed method is superior to the shallow learning based methods, 3) the proposed method can effectively detect various kinds of micro-cracks.
关键词： solar cell,stacked denoising auto encoder,long-term,convolutional neural networks,short-term,micro-cracks detection
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Binary synergetic ions reduce defect density in ambient air processed perovskite solar cells
摘要： At present, significant research efforts are being concentrated on enhancing the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSC) by lowering defect traps. In this study, NH4+ and SCN- binary ions as additive were incorporated into perovskite precursor to control the crystal growth. Our best performance based on the devices fabricated under fully open air condition was improved from 15.67 to 18.75%, boosting by 20%. The stability results display that devices containing additive maintained ~90% of the initial efficiency for 400 h in ambient air with a humidity of 30%. We first study the fundamentals of defect properties and carrier recombination kinetics behind the multifaceted role of mixed NH4+ and SCN- ions. Compared to using a single active specie as additive, mixed-ions devices exhibit effective bifacial trap passivation as well as lowered defect density in not only perovskite bulk material but also interfaces significantly, leading to facilitated electron transport. Our work can manifest a simple ambient air based approach by the mixed binary ions as additives in order to potentially promote the commercial prospects of PSCs.
关键词： Ambient air process,Performance and stability,Defect density,Binary synergetic ions,Perovskite solar cell
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Effect of annealing temperature of MoO3 layer in MoO3/Au/MoO3 (MAM) coated PbS QDs sensitized ZnO nanorods/FTO glass solar cell
摘要： This research reports fabrication of MoO3/Au/MoO3 (MAM) coated PbS sensitized quantum dot solar cell. ZnO nanorod grown FTO glass substrates were sensitized by PbS quantum dots (PbS QDs/ZnO nanorods/FTO Glass), followed by (MoO3/Au/MoO3) coating. Hydrothermal process was used to grow ZnO nanorods, followed by the deposition of PbS QDs using Successive Ionic Layer Adsorption and Reaction (SILAR). Finally, (MoO3/Au/MoO3) layers were deposited for the back contact. Spin coating was used to deposit MoO3 layers while middle layer of Au was deposited by sputter coating. Three such devices were fabricated with three di?erent annealing temperatures i.e. 100 °C, 150 °C and 200 °C for ?rst MoO3 layer. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) was used for surface morphology of the devices; Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy Analysis (EDS) and X-Ray Di?raction (XRD) techniques were used for elemental and structural analysis, Optical properties of the devices were determined using UV–Visible analysis. Power conversion e?ciency (PCE) of all three devices was obtained to observe devices performance. Improved PCE of 4.617% was obtained by the device with the thermal treatment of 150 °C.
关键词： Quantum dots,ZnO nanorods,MoO3 thin ?lm,PbS quantum dot sensitized Solar Cell
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57