TY  - JOUR
ID  - SisLab1801
UR  - DOI: 10.1039/C5TA02363G
A1  - Vu, Thi Hong Ha
A1  - Timur, Sh. Atabaev
A1  - Ji, Young Ahn
A1  - Nguyen, Nang Dinh
A1  - Hyung, Kook Kim
A1  - Yoon, Hwae Hwang
Y1  - 2015///
N2  - Phosphor particles were introduced as a luminescent medium to improve the overall efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In the preparation process, TiO2 and phosphor particles were mixed to make photoelectrodes with bilayer (TiO2/mix), 3-layer (TiO2/mix/TiO2) and 4-layer (TiO2/mix/TiO2/mix) structures. The cell with the bilayer structure (TiO2/mix) after treating with TiCl4 solution showed the highest light-to-electric energy conversion efficiency (8.78%), which was ?25.8% higher than that of a cell with a pure TiO2 layer under the same experimental conditions. The improvement in the energy conversion efficiency of DSSCs was attributed to phosphor enhanced incident light-harvesting via up- and down-conversion luminescence processes, resulting in an increase in the photocurrent.
JF  - J. Mater. Chem. A
VL  - 3
TI  - Dye-sensitized solar cells composed of photoactive composite photoelectrodes with enhanced solar energy conversion efficiency
SP  - 11130
AV  - none
EP  - 11136
ER  -