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

• ZnO could be a preferential alternative to TiO2. However, ZnO suffers from lack of stability in the acidic Ru-based sensitizers in DSSCs, leading to the formation ZnO/dye aggregates [30]. This can be easily avoided for QDSSCs where the used sensitizer, CdS, is neutral in nature. In our earlier work

Optical absorption signature of a self-assembled dye monolayer on graphene

• Tessnim Sghaier,
• Sylvain Le Liepvre,
• Céline Fiorini,
• Ludovic Douillard and
• Fabrice Charra

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 862–868, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.78

• strengths of the vibronic structures are preserved. These changes are attributed to non-resonant interactions with the graphene layer and the neighbouring molecules. Keywords: absorption spectroscopy; dye aggregates; graphene; molecular monolayer; optical spectroscopy; perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic