Single-nanowire solar cells have been considered to be the promising candidates as the nanoelectronical and flexibledevices, as they possess large surface-to-volume ratio and short minority carrier’stransferring path...
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Single-nanowire solar cells have been considered to be the promising candidates as the nanoelectronical and flexibledevices, as they possess large surface-to-volume ratio and short minority carrier’stransferring path. Recently, there is some kinds of heterostructures are used to fabricated single-nanowire solar cells, such as CdS/Cu 2 S, CuInSe 2 /CdS. Among them, cadmium sulfide (CdS) and silver sulfide (Ag 2 S) have been attracted much attention for excellentoptoelectronic property, and surface-passivated is an important process to improve the efficiency. Till now, there is few works focused on the influence of the surface-passivated layer on the photovoltaicefficiency of the CdS/Ag 2 S core-shell single-nanowires solar cells. Herein, CdS nanowires were synthesized via vapor liquid solid(VLS) method, which is used as the core structure. To obtain CdS/Ag 2 S core-shell structure, cation exchange was carried out through mixing CdS solution with AgNO 3 solution.A ZnS passivation layer with the thickness of 0nm was achieved by chemical bath deposition (CBD) process. The single CdS/Ag 2 S core-shell nanowires were separated individually on the regular Au pattern fabricated by the photolithography technique, and then two ends of the nanowires were well contacted with Au electrodes by using the electron beam lithography. X-raydiffraction, SEM, X-ray spectroscopy and TEM techniques were used to character the microstructure, morphology and combining chemical state. The fabricated single-nanowire solar cells were irradiated under AM 1.5G illumination, an efficiency improvement from 1.8% to 2.4%was achieved due to the preventing charge carriers from reaching the surface by surface-passivated layer. In conclusion, CdS/Ag 2 Sheterostructures had been successfully prepared by cation exchange method, achieving an efficiency enhancement by forming the surface-passivated single-nanowire solar cells.
Indoor air quality has received immense ***,a carcinogenicity material,is a typical gaseous indoor *** oxidation has been studied extensively to purify the polluted air and to remove *** has been the most popular phot...
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Indoor air quality has received immense ***,a carcinogenicity material,is a typical gaseous indoor *** oxidation has been studied extensively to purify the polluted air and to remove *** has been the most popular photocatalyst for environmental purification due to its good chemical stability,high oxidized activity, nontoxicity and low ***,its quantum efficiency in photocatalyst reaction is generally not high enough from application point of *** this work,novel TiO nanotube arrays modified with
Quantum dots sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) have been attracted much attention as the next generation photovoltaic devices, due to the size-effect, high absorption coefficient and multiple excitation generation of qu...
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Quantum dots sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) have been attracted much attention as the next generation photovoltaic devices, due to the size-effect, high absorption coefficient and multiple excitation generation of quantum dots (QDs). Recently, Mn-CdS/CdSe and CuInS 2 /Mn-CdS sensitized solar cells has been obtained. However, the performance of the solar cells is still limited by the transfer barrier of the photo-induced electrons from nanoparticles. Nowadays, the single crystalline nanorods, nanowires and nanotubes arrays structure have been widely prepared to improve the electron transfer. In order to effectively enhance the efficiency, the nanowire structure is expected to be employed in both photo-anodes and counter electrodes for QDSSCs fabrication. In this work, Cu 2 S nanowire arrays are prepared by the solution method, which are employed to the photo-cathodes of solar cells, meanwhile, single crystalline anatase TiO 2 nanowires arrays are prepared by hydrothermal method and then be transferred to FTO substrate as the photo-anodes. CuInS 2 and Mn-CdS QDs are deposited on TiO 2 nanowire arrays films by using linking assembly method and chemical bath deposition. The structure, morphology and optical properties have been characterized by XRD, SEM, UV-Vis spectra. Under a solar illumination, the photovoltaic efficiency of this double-side nanowire structure based solar cells are obviously enhanced from 3.3% to 4.1%. In summary, the CuInS 2 /Mn-CdS QDs sensitized solar cells by using TiO 2 and Cu 2 S nanowire arrays as the photo-anodes and photo-cathodes have been fabricated. It is found that the photovoltaic performance of these QDSSCs is obviously enhanced comparing to the nanoparticles based solar cells. The reason is originated from that fact that the better electron transfer and injection from the one-dimensional nanowire arrays structure.
TiO 2 hollow structure materials had become one of the hot spots because of their low density, high specific surface areas, and good photocatalytic activity. Till now, there were lots of works focused on them, such as...
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TiO 2 hollow structure materials had become one of the hot spots because of their low density, high specific surface areas, and good photocatalytic activity. Till now, there were lots of works focused on them, such as their extensive application in catalysis, pharmacy, sensing device, photon transmission and the basis material of DSSC. Nevertheless, the drawbacks which are out control of nanoparticles phases on the surface, raw materials wasted and visible region absorption of its structure doesn't make it get better development in the field of photocatalysis research. In the present work, sulfonated-polystyrene latex particles with the diameter varying from 500~700 nm were prepared by emulsifier-free emulsion polymerization using KPS as the anionic initiator, which was used as the template to synthesize porous titania microspheres with tunable shell thickness and void volume with the calcination at 400°*** coating reaction was processed in the mixed solvent of ethanol and acetonitrile at room temperature by hydrolyzing TBOT in the presence of ammonia. The thickness of titania shells could be controlled by varying the concentration contents of titanium tetrabutoxide (TBOT) in the ethanol/acetonitrile mixed solvents with an appropriate volume ratio (3:1). The titania shell was composed of tiny nanoparticles with a size range from 10~15 nm. The XRD analysis indicated that the calcinations temperature promoted the phase transformation of amorphous titania to an anatase TiO 2 phase, and then to rutile TiO 2 phase. To investigate the absorption properties of the TiO 2 hollow spheres, the UV–visible spectra of the TiO 2 hollow spheres were also measured, it was found that the prepared hollow sphere showed a stronger absorption in the UV-visible region than that of the P25 with a slight peak-shift towards longer wavelength, which may lead to the enhanced photocatalytic activity of tinatia hollow spheres by 53% if compared with P25 powders. In summary, hierarchical and na
Fe-Ni-Cr alloy is a potential material as the bipolar plate for proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC).However,its interfacial contact resistance is too high and the corrosion resistance is too low to survive in t...
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Fe-Ni-Cr alloy is a potential material as the bipolar plate for proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC).However,its interfacial contact resistance is too high and the corrosion resistance is too low to survive in the hostile environment.A novel method by preparing the composite coating layers by in-situ method is reported in this *** plate is first treated in acid solution,and then is heat treated in vacuum at low temperature,at last is treated by electrochemical method.
Electrode performance depends largely on the microstructure,hence the Ordered Nanoarrays Electrode (ONAE) has been attracted more and more *** presentation aims to assess the benefit and disadvantage of the Pt Order N...
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Electrode performance depends largely on the microstructure,hence the Ordered Nanoarrays Electrode (ONAE) has been attracted more and more *** presentation aims to assess the benefit and disadvantage of the Pt Order Nanoarrays electrode (Pt-ONAE) in terms of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR).Therefore the ORR kinetic equation was formulated for both Pt-ONAE and traditional Pt/C *** structure parameters of the electrode such as thickness/porosities,surface area,and tortuosity factor are critical to the ORR kinetic.
We present design and synthesis of diverse functional kinked nanowire structures for nanoelectronic bioprobes, including (1) U-shaped KNWs with a nanoFET at the tip of the "U," (2) V-shaped KNWs with series ...
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Research interest for the synthesis and fabrication of novel proton conducting electrolytes which can be operated under the elevated temperatures and low relative humidification (RH) conditions has been increased exte...
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