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Exciton Generation/Dissociation/Charge-Transfer Enhancement in Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Solar Cells by Robust Single Nanocrystalline LnPxOy (Ln = Eu, Y) Doping

Jin, Xiao, Sun, Weifu, Chen, Zihan, Wei, Taihuei, Chen, Chuyang, He, Xingdao, Yuan, Yongbiao, Li, Yue, Li, Qinghua·2014·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
DOI 10.1021/am501597k
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Low-temperature solution-processed photovoltaics suffer from low efficiencies because of poor exciton or electron-hole transfer. Inorganic/organic hybrid solar cell, although still in its infancy, has attracted great interest thus far. One of the promising ways to enhance exciton dissociation or electron-hole transport is the doping of lanthanide phosphate ions. However, the underlying photophysical mechanism remains poorly understood. Herein, by applying femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, we successfully distinguished hot electron, less energetic electron, hole transport from electron-hole recombination. Concrete evidence has been provided that lanthanide phosphate doping improves the efficiency of both hot electron and "less energetic" electron transfers from donor to acceptor, but the hole transport almost remains unchanged. In particular, the hot electron transfer lifetime was shortened from 30.2 to 12.7 ps, that is, more than 60% faster than pure TiO2 acceptor. Such improvement was ascribed to the facts that the conduction band (CB) edge energy level of TiO2 has been elevated by 0.2 eV, while the valence band level almost remains unchanged, thus not only narrowing the energy offset between CB levels of TiO2 and P3HT, but also meanwhile enlarging the band gap of TiO2 itself that permits one to inhibit electron-hole recombination within TiO2. Consequently, lanthanide phosphate doped TiO2/P3HT bulk-heterojunction solar cell has been demonstrated to be a promising hybrid solar cell, and a notable power conversion efficiency of 2.91% is therefore attained. This work indicates that lanthanide compound ions can efficiently facilitate exciton generation, dissociation, and charge transport, thus enhancing photovoltaic performance.

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Authors
Jin, X., Sun, W., Chen, Z., Wei, T., Chen, C., He, X., Yuan, Y., Li, Y., & Li, Q.
Affiliations
  • Nanchang Hangkong University (CN)
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • Department of Physics, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan, Republic of China
Corresponding author
Li, Qinghua
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Venue
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Published
2014-05-29
Volume
6
Issue
11
Pages
8771-8781
ISSN
  • 1944-8244 (ISSN-L)
  • 1944-8252
DOI
10.1021/am501597k
OpenAlex
W2315744517
Cited by
40
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FWCI
5.67
Type
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Language
en
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  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (publishedVersion)
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  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Nanchang Hangkong University
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • Nanchang University
  • Education Department of Jiangxi Province
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
Keywords
exciton dissociation, hot electron transfer, electron-hole recombination, charge transfer, band gap narrowing, femtosecond transient absorption, power conversion efficiency

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Jin, X., Sun, W., Chen, Z., Wei, T., Chen, C., He, X., Yuan, Y., Li, Y., & Li, Q. (2014). Exciton Generation/Dissociation/Charge-Transfer Enhancement in Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Solar Cells by Robust Single Nanocrystalline LnPxOy (Ln = Eu, Y) Doping. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1021/am501597k