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Chemical Communications

Y3Al5O12:Ce phosphors as a scattering layer for high-efficiency dye sensitized solar cells†

Guang Zhu,a   Xiaojun Wang,a   Huili Li,a   Likun Pan,*a   Hengchao Sun,a   Xinjuan Liu,a   Tian Lva  and  Zhuo Suna  

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a Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics & Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
E-mail: lkpan@phy.ecnu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Y3Al5O12:Ce phosphors have been prepared and used as an effective scattering layer on top of a transparent layer of nanocrystalline TiO2 for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The Y3Al5O12:Ce scattering layer increases the photocurrent of DSSCs due to the enhanced light harvesting mainly via the improved light absorption and scattering. Under one sun illumination (AM 1.5G, 100 mW cm−2), a high efficiency of 7.91% was achieved for the cell with a Y3Al5O12:Ce scattering layer, which is an increase of 13.5% compared to the cell without a scattering layer (6.97%).

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC16089C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Sep 2011
Accepted
10 Nov 2011
First published
24 Nov 2011

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 958-960

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Y3Al5O12:Ce phosphors as a scattering layer for high-efficiency dye sensitized solar cells

G. Zhu, X. Wang, H. Li, L. Pan, H. Sun, X. Liu, T. Lv and Z. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 958 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC16089C

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