Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N2 atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells

Mingxing Wu; Xiao Lin; Wei Guo; Yudi Wang; Lingling Chu; Tingli Ma; Kezhong Wu

doi:10.1039/C2CC37360B

You do not have JavaScript enabled. Please enable JavaScript to access the full features of the site or access our non-JavaScript page.

Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N₂ atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells†

Mingxing Wu,*^ab Xiao Lin,^bc Wei Guo,^b Yudi Wang,^b Lingling Chu,^b Tingli Ma*^b and Kezhong Wu*^a

Author affiliations

* Corresponding authors

^a Department of Chemistry and Material Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nano-materials of Hebei Province, Hebei Normal University, No. 20 Rd. East of 2nd Ring South, Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, China
E-mail: mingxingwu_paper@163.com

^b State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
E-mail: tinglima@dlut.edu.cn

^c China Gateway Technology Development Co, Ltd., Shangshai City, China

Abstract

The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using SnO₂ and Nb₂O₅ counter electrodes (CEs) prepared in N₂ atmosphere yielded power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 6.09% and 4.65%, much higher than the PCE values (1.84%, 0.97%) of the DSCs using the same SnO₂ and Nb₂O₅ CEs prepared in air.

Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Supplementary information PDF (285K)

Article information

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC37360B
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 11 Sep 2012
Accepted: 26 Oct 2012
First published: 29 Oct 2012

Download Citation

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 1058-1060

Permissions

Request permissions

Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N₂ atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells

M. Wu, X. Lin, W. Guo, Y. Wang, L. Chu, T. Ma and K. Wu, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1058 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37360B

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Social activity

Fetching data from CrossRef.
This may take some time to load.

Chemical Communications