Engineering the intermediate band states in amorphous Ti3+-doped TiO2 for hybrid dye-sensitized solar cell applications

Shusheng Pan; Xiaolin Liu; Min Guo; Siu Fung Yu; Haitao Huang; Hongtao Fan; Guanghai Li

doi:10.1039/c5ta00956a

Engineering the intermediate band states in amorphous Ti³⁺-doped TiO₂ for hybrid dye-sensitized solar cell applications

Shusheng Pan, Xiaolin Liu, Min Guo, Siu Fung Yu, Haitao Huang, Hongtao Fan, Guanghai Li

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Abstract

Ti³⁺-doped amorphous TiO₂ nanoparticles (a-TiO₂:Ti³⁺), which are an intermediate band semiconductor, were fabricated by high intensity ultraviolet pulsed laser ablation in water. The absorption band of a-TiO₂:Ti³⁺ nanoparticles, which appears between the visible and infrared regions, is much wider than that of the rutile TiO₂ nanoparticles. The intermediate band, which has a recombination lifetime of 0.71 μs, is found to be 1.61 eV above the valence band (VB) top of TiO₂. It can be shown that the a-TiO₂:Ti³⁺/TiO₂ nanotube hybrid dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) not only have a high fill factor and large open circuit voltage, but also have high photovoltaic conversion efficiency as compared to TiO₂ nanotube DSSCs. Considering that most of the current solar cells use only a single photoelectric conversion material (PCM), our results will promote the research on multi-PCM hybrid solar cells.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11437-11443
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume	3
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ta00956a
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2015

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