Quantum dot-sensitized solar cells

Z Pan, H Rao, I Mora-Seró, J Bisquert… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSCs) have emerged as a promising candidate for
next-generation solar cells due to the distinct optoelectronic features of quantum dot (QD) …

Quantum dot nanoscale heterostructures for solar energy conversion

RS Selinsky, Q Ding, MS Faber, JC Wright… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantum dot nanoscale semiconductor heterostructures (QDHs) are a class of materials
potentially useful for integration into solar energy conversion devices. However, realizing the …

Surface engineering of ZnO nanostructures for semiconductor‐sensitized solar cells

J Xu, Z Chen, JA Zapien, CS Lee… - Advanced Materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor‐sensitized solar cells (SSCs) are emerging as promising devices for
achieving efficient and low‐cost solar‐energy conversion. The recent progress in the …

Atomic layer deposition enabling higher efficiency solar cells: A review

MA Hossain, KT Khoo, X Cui, GK Poduval… - Nano Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) can synthesise materials with atomic-scale precision. The
ability to tune the material composition, film thickness with excellent conformality, allow low …

CdSe-sensitized mesoscopic TiO 2 solar cells exhibiting> 5% efficiency: redundancy of CdS buffer layer

MA Hossain, JR Jennings, C Shen, JH Pan… - Journal of materials …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconductor-sensitized TiO2 solar cells employing CdSe as a light absorber demonstrate
superior photovoltaic performance to the best-performing cascaded CdS/CdSe cells with …

Quantum‐Dot Sensitized Solar Cells Employing Hierarchical Cu2S Microspheres Wrapped by Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets as Effective Counter Electrodes

M Ye, C Chen, N Zhang, X Wen… - Advanced Energy …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Hierarchical Cu2S microspheres wrapped by reduced graphene oxide (RGO) nanosheets
are prepared via a one‐step solvothermal process. The amount of graphene oxide used in …

Recent developments in metal chalcogenides based quantum dot sensitized solar cells

R Kottayi, DK Maurya, R Sittaramane… - ES Energy & …, 2022 - espublisher.com
Recent advance in nanotechnology leads to develop a variety of metal chalcogenide
quantum dots (QDs) such as binary metal chalcogenides QDs and alloyed QDs. The …

Semiconductor solid‐solution nanostructures: synthesis, property tailoring, and applications

B Liu, J Li, W Yang, X Zhang, X Jiang, Y Bando - Small, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The innovation of band‐gap engineering in advanced materials caused by the alloying of
different semiconductors into solid‐solution nanostructures provides numerous opportunities …

Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals: From bottom-up nanoarchitectonics to energy harvesting applications

A Dalui, K Ariga, S Acharya - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been extensively investigated owing to
their unique properties induced by the quantum confinement effect. The advent of colloidal …

Effect of Different Sensitization Technique on the Photoconversion Efficiency of CdS Quantum Dot and CdSe Quantum Rod Sensitized TiO2 Solar Cells

D Esparza, I Zarazúa, T López-Luke… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The procedure employed for the sensitization of mesoporous photoanodes affects strongly
the final performance of sensitized devices, especially when semiconductor quantum dots …