Nanoscale strategies for light harvesting

S Kundu, A Patra - Chemical reviews, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Recent advances and the current status of challenging light-harvesting nanomaterials, such
as semiconducting quantum dots (QDs), metal nanoparticles, semiconductor–metal …

Exciton binding energy and the nature of emissive states in organometal halide perovskites

K Zheng, Q Zhu, M Abdellah, ME Messing… - The journal of …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Characteristics of nanoscale materials are often different from the corresponding bulk
properties providing new, sometimes unexpected, opportunities for applications. Here we …

Trap states and their dynamics in organometal halide perovskite nanoparticles and bulk crystals

K Zheng, K Zidek, M Abdellah… - The Journal of …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Organometal halide perovskites have attracted tremendous attention for optoelectronic
applications. Charge carrier trap** is one of the dominant processes often deteriorating …

Study on carrier dynamics of perovskite solar cells via transient absorption

G Yang, Y Tu, J Ye, R Liu, Y Zang, L Zhang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are the most promising candidate for next-generation
photovoltaics. The carrier dynamics behavior in perovskite is closely related to the …

High efficiency CdS/CdSe quantum dot sensitized solar cells with two ZnSe layers

F Huang, L Zhang, Q Zhang, J Hou… - … applied materials & …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
CdS/CdSe quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSCs) have been intensively investigated;
however, most of the reported power conversion efficiency (PCE) is still lower than 7% due …

Efficiency Enhancement of Quantum Dot Sensitized TiO2/ZnO Nanorod Arrays Solar Cells by Plasmonic Ag Nanoparticles

H Zhao, F Huang, J Hou, Z Liu, Q Wu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
A high efficiency quantum dot sensitized solar cell (QDSC) based on Ag nanoparticles (NPs)
decorated TiO2/ZnO nanorod arrays (NAs) photoelectrode has been constructed. The …

Layer-Dependent Photoinduced Electron Transfer in 0D–2D Lead Sulfide/Cadmium Sulfide–Layered Molybdenum Disulfide Hybrids

JS Chen, M Li, Q Wu, E Fron, X Tong, M Cotlet - ACS nano, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
We demonstrate layer-dependent electron transfer between core/shell PbS/CdS quantum
dots (QDs) and layered MoS2 via energy band gap engineering of both the donor (QDs) and …

Correlating Charge‐Carrier Dynamics with Efficiency in Quantum‐Dot Solar Cells: Can Excitonics Lead to Highly Efficient Devices?

S Maiti, J Dana, HN Ghosh - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The photovoltaic performance of quantum‐dot solar cells strongly depends on the charge‐
carrier relaxation and recombination processes, which need to be modulated in a favorable …

Light-induced interfacial phenomena in atomically thin 2D van der Waals material hybrids and heterojunctions

M Li, JS Chen, M Cotlet - ACS Energy Letters, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Atomically thin 2D van der Waals (2D-vDW) materials have attracted significant attention for
optoelectronic applications in photodetectors, photovoltaics, and quantum information …

Investigation of the role of Mn dopant in CdS quantum dot sensitized solar cell

T Shen, J Tian, L Lv, C Fei, Y Wang, T Pullerits… - Electrochimica Acta, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Mn-do** into CdS quantum dots (QDs) has been demonstrated a useful way to enhance
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSCs), the …