Highly efficient and stable quantum dot-sensitized solar cells based on a Mn-doped CuS counter electrode

Authors :: Hee-Je Kim
Dinah Punnoose
S. Srinivasa Rao
Chandu V. V. Muralee Gopi
Mallineni Venkata-Haritha
Soo-Kyoung Kim
Source :: RSC Advances. 5:2963-2967
Publication Year :: 2015
Publisher :: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2015.
Abstract: Here for the first time, we demonstrate a novel Mn-doped CuS counter electrode via a facile chemical bath deposition, which exhibited an efficiency of 5.46% comparable to the solar cell based on the bare CuS electrode (4.29%) and Pt electrode (1.37%) under similar conditions.

Subjects :: Pt electrode
Auxiliary electrode
law
Quantum dot
Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering
Inorganic chemistry
Solar cell
Electrode
General Chemistry
Mn doped
law.invention
Chemical bath deposition

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