Iron Pyrite Thin Film Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: High Efficiency for Iodine and Cobalt Redox Electrolyte Cells
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- 作者：Sudhanshu Shukla ; Nguyen Huu Loc ; Pablo P. Boix ; Teck Ming Koh ; Rajiv Ramanujam Prabhakar ; Hemant K. Mulmudi ; Jun Zhang ; Shi Chen ; Chin Fan Ng ; Cheng Hon Alfred Huan ; Nripan Mathews ; Thirumany Sritharan ; Qihua Xiong
- 刊名：ACS Nano
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：October 28, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：8
- 期：10
- 页码：10597-10605
- 全文大小：629K
- ISSN：1936-086X
文摘
Iron pyrite has been the material of interest in the solar community due to its optical properties and abundance. However, the progress is marred due to the lack of control on the surface and intrinsic chemistry of pyrite. In this report, we show iron pyrite as an efficient counter electrode (CE) material alternative to the conventional Pt and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT) CEs in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Pyrite film CEs prepared by spray pyrolysis are utilized in I3鈥?/sup>/I鈥?/sup> and Co(III)/Co(II) electrolyte-mediated DSSCs. From cyclic voltammetry and impedance spectroscopy studies, the catalytic activity is found to be comparable with that of Pt and PEDOT in I3鈥?/sup>/I鈥?/sup> and Co(III)/Co(II) electrolyte, respectively. With the I3鈥?/sup>/I鈥?/sup> electrolyte, photoconversion efficiency is found to be 8.0% for the pyrite CE and 7.5% for Pt, whereas with Co(III)/Co(II) redox DSSCs, efficiency is found to be the same for both pyrite and PEDOT (6.3%). The excellent performance of the pyrite CE in both the systems makes it a distinctive choice among the various CE materials studied.