TY - JOUR
T1 - A simple modification of near-infrared photon-to-electron response with fluorescence resonance energy transfer for dye-sensitized solar cells
AU - Li, Liang
AU - Yang, Yulin
AU - Fan, Ruiqing
AU - Jiang, Yanxia
AU - Wei, Liguo
AU - Shi, Yan
AU - Yu, Jia
AU - Chen, Shuo
AU - Wang, Ping
AU - Yang, Bin
AU - Cao, Wenwu
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 21171044 and 21371040 ), the National key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No. 2013CB632900 ), and supported by Program for Innovation Research of Science in Harbin Institute of Technology .
PY - 2014/10/15
Y1 - 2014/10/15
N2 - Upconversion (UC) Er, Yb-YF3 is introduced into dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) through a simple method to investigate the effect of UC particles in photoanode. The utilization of UC phosphor can significantly improve the photocurrent of the cells under both infrared irradiation and sunlight. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and luminescence- mediated energy transfer between UC-YF3 and N719 dye are explored as the main contribution that UC-YF3 made to DSSC. With the multi-efforts of UC-YF3, power conversion efficiency (PCE) of DSSC is improved from 5.18% to 6.22%. Besides, Electron transfer between UC-YF 3 and TiO2 is found after sintered at 450 °C, and the PCE value of DSSC is improved further (5.34% → 6.76%). In addition, we explore that UC-YF3 can serve as a scattering material to increase the light absorption capability of the cells and increase the photocurrent of the cells under simulated sunlight irradiation.
AB - Upconversion (UC) Er, Yb-YF3 is introduced into dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) through a simple method to investigate the effect of UC particles in photoanode. The utilization of UC phosphor can significantly improve the photocurrent of the cells under both infrared irradiation and sunlight. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and luminescence- mediated energy transfer between UC-YF3 and N719 dye are explored as the main contribution that UC-YF3 made to DSSC. With the multi-efforts of UC-YF3, power conversion efficiency (PCE) of DSSC is improved from 5.18% to 6.22%. Besides, Electron transfer between UC-YF 3 and TiO2 is found after sintered at 450 °C, and the PCE value of DSSC is improved further (5.34% → 6.76%). In addition, we explore that UC-YF3 can serve as a scattering material to increase the light absorption capability of the cells and increase the photocurrent of the cells under simulated sunlight irradiation.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.04.100
DO - 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.04.100
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84900443159
SN - 0378-7753
VL - 264
SP - 254
EP - 261
JO - Journal of Power Sources
JF - Journal of Power Sources
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