Design and development of novel linker for PbS quantum dots/TiO2 mesoscopic solar cell

Lioz Etgar; Jinhyung Park; Claudia Barolo; Md K. Nazeeruddin; Guido Viscardi; Michael Graetzel

doi:10.1021/am200811c

Design and development of novel linker for PbS quantum dots/TiO₂ mesoscopic solar cell

Lioz Etgar^*, Jinhyung Park, Claudia Barolo, Md K. Nazeeruddin, Guido Viscardi, Michael Graetzel

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Abstract

A novel bifunctional linker molecule, bis(4-mercaptophenyl)phosphinic acid, is designed to be used in a QDs solar cells. The linker anchors to TiO ₂ mesoporous film through the phosphinic acid functional group and to the PbS QDs through the two thiol groups. The way of attachment of this new linker molecule in a photovoltaic PbS QDs/TiO₂ mesoporous device was studied by FTIR measurements. The photovoltaic performance of this new linker in a heterojunction PbS QDs solar cell show high V_oc relative to QDs based solar cells, which will allow to receive high power conversion efficiency using this novel designed linker. This novel bifunctional linker molecule should pave the way for enhancing binding strength, and efficiency of QDs solar cells compared to the state-of-the-art linkers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3264-3267
Number of pages	4
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	3
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/am200811c
State	Published - 28 Sep 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

PbS
bifunctional molecular linker
heterojunction solar cells
mesoporous TiO
phosphinic acid
quantum dots

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