Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N2 atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells

Mingxing Wu; Xiao Lin; Wei Guo; Yudi Wang; Lingling Chu; Tingli Ma; Kezhong Wu

doi:10.1039/c2cc37360b

Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N2 atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Feb 4;49(11):1058-60. doi: 10.1039/c2cc37360b.

Authors

Mingxing Wu¹, Xiao Lin, Wei Guo, Yudi Wang, Lingling Chu, Tingli Ma, Kezhong Wu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Material Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nano-materials of Hebei Province, Hebei Normal University, No. 20 Rd. East of 2nd Ring South, Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province 050024, China. mingxingwu_paper@163.com

PMID: 23282677
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc37360b

Abstract

The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using SnO(2) and Nb(2)O(5) counter electrodes (CEs) prepared in N(2) atmosphere yielded power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 6.09% and 4.65%, much higher than the PCE values (1.84%, 0.97%) of the DSCs using the same SnO(2) and Nb(2)O(5) CEs prepared in air.