TY - GEN
T1 - Electrospun TiO2 nanorods assembly sensitized by mercaptosuccinic acid-capped CdS quantum dots for solar cells
AU - Nair, A Sreekumaran
AU - Shengyuan, Yang
AU - Peining, Zhu
AU - Elumalai, Naveen Kumar
AU - Archana, Panikar S
AU - Babu, Veluru Jagadeesh
AU - Ramakrishna, Seeram
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - CdS quantum dots (QDs) capped with mercaptosuccinic acid (MSA) as the surface passivating ligand were anchored to electrospun TiO2 nanorod surfaces using the terminal carboxylic acid groups present on MSA. The as-synthesized materials and the dye-sensitized solar cells were characterized by spectroscopy, microscopy and photocurrent measurements, respectively. Best solar cells fabricated by the method showed an efficiency of 0.07%. We believe that the simple, one-pot fabrication of the QDs and their assembly into solar cells are significant steps in QD-sensitized solar cell research.
AB - CdS quantum dots (QDs) capped with mercaptosuccinic acid (MSA) as the surface passivating ligand were anchored to electrospun TiO2 nanorod surfaces using the terminal carboxylic acid groups present on MSA. The as-synthesized materials and the dye-sensitized solar cells were characterized by spectroscopy, microscopy and photocurrent measurements, respectively. Best solar cells fabricated by the method showed an efficiency of 0.07%. We believe that the simple, one-pot fabrication of the QDs and their assembly into solar cells are significant steps in QD-sensitized solar cell research.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959919128&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SIECPC.2011.5876947
DO - 10.1109/SIECPC.2011.5876947
M3 - Conference Paper published in Proceedings
SN - 978-1-4577-0068-2
SP - 1
EP - 4
BT - 2011 Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference (SIECPC)
ER -