High-Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell with Three-Dimensional Photoanode

Nicolas Tétreault; Éric Arsenault; Leo-Philipp Heiniger; Navid Soheilnia; Jérémie Brillet; Thomas Moehl; Shaik Zakeeruddin; Geoffrey A. Ozin; Michael Grätzel

doi:10.1021/nl201792r

High-Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell with Three-Dimensional Photoanode

Nicolas Tétreault, Éric Arsenault, Leo-Philipp Heiniger, Navid Soheilnia, Jérémie Brillet, Thomas Moehl, Shaik Zakeeruddin, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Michael Grätzel

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Herein, we present a straightforward bottom-up synthesis of a high electron mobility and highly light scattering macroporous photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells. The dense three-dimensional Al/ZnO, SnO2, or TiO 2 host integrates a conformal passivation thin film to reduce recombination and a large surface-area mesoporous anatase guest for high dye loading. This novel photoanode is designed to improve the charge extraction resulting in higher fill factor and photovoltage for DSCs. An increase in photovoltage of up to 110 mV over state-of-the-art DSC is demonstrated. © 2011 American Chemical Society.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4579-4584
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	11
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl201792r
State	Published - Nov 9 2011
Externally published	Yes

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUS-C1-015-21
Acknowledgements: N.T. wishes to thank Dr. Morgan Stefik for the XRD of SnO2. Research at EPFL was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Award No KUS-C1-015-21). J.B. received financial support from a Marie Curie Research Training Network, Hydrogen Project (MRTN-CT-2006-032474). L.-P. H. received financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant 200020_125163). This work was partially supported by the European project MULTI-PLAT (NMP4-SL-2009-228943). For research at University of Toronto, G.A.O. is deeply indebted to the Government of Canada for a Research Chair in Materials Chemistry and Nanochemistry enabling this research at University of Toronto. In addition, he thanks the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and the NSERC Solar Network for strong and sustained financial support of this work. EA thanks NSERC for a graduate scholarship.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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