Performance of colloidal CdS sensitized solar cells with ZnO nanorods/nanoparticles

• Anurag Roy,
• Partha Pratim Das,
• Mukta Tathavadekar,
• Sumita Das and
• Parukuttyamma Sujatha Devi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 210–221, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.23

• voltage (VOC) of 0.67 V was achieved for the ZnO nanorod/nanoparticle assembled structure. The introduction of ZnO nanorods over the nanoparticle led to a significant enhancement of the overall efficiency compared to the corresponding bare nanoparticles. Keywords: DSSC; QDSSC; quantum dot; solar cells

• modest improvement in short circuit current (JSC) as well as fill factor (FF) with an efficiency of 0.80%. On the other hand, for QDSSC systems, the electrolyte and counter electrode combination is another important factor which affects the efficiency of the device. We have tested polysulphide as an

• obtained in this work are quite competitive and interesting. In addition, the VOC and FF of the measured cells are also higher compared to the literature results. This confirms the effectiveness of utilizing the BSA-mediated CdS in improving the QDSSC performance with ZnO as photoanodes. The I–V

Influence of wide band gap oxide substrates on the photoelectrochemical properties and structural disorder of CdS nanoparticles grown by the successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method

• Mikalai V. Malashchonak,
• Alexander V. Mazanik,
• Olga V. Korolik,
• Еugene А. Streltsov and
• Anatoly I. Kulak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2252–2262, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.231

• SILAR technique more flexible and predictable for QDSSC application. Along with the photoelectrochemical investigation, Raman spectroscopy was used to characterize CdS NPs. Raman spectroscopy in the simplest case can be applied as a type of phase analysis [16][17]. At the same time, in the general case