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PbS as a Highly Catalytic Counter Electrode for Polysulfide-Based Quantum Dot Solar Cells
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We show that a significant improvement of the light to electric power conversion efficiency of quantum dot sensitized solar cells with a polysulfide electrolyte can be achieved when a PbS counter electrode is used. An acid pretreatment of a Pb metal foil followed by dipping into polysulfide solution provides a counter electrode which improves the short circuit current, open circuit voltage, and fill factor compared to commonly used Pt electrodes. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy reveals a low charge transfer resistance between polysulfide and PbS, indicating the high catalytic activity of PbS. Moreover, a comparison with reported charge transfer resistance values at open circuit potential for alternative counter electrodes for polysulfide shows that PbS is the most catalytic of all. For a CdSe quantum dot sensitized mesoporous TiO 2 electrode, we achieved a conversion efficiency of 3% using PbS as a counter electrode.
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- Tachan, Z., Shalom, M., Hod, I., Rühle, S., Tirosh, S., & Zaban, A.
- Venue
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2011-03-15
- Volume
- 115
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 6162-6166
- ISSN
- 1932-7447 (ISSN-L)
- 1932-7455
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- W1981847083
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- 301
- References
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- FWCI
- 15.63
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
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