Issue 21, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Incorporation of graphene in quantum dot sensitized solar cells based on ZnO nanorods†

Jing Chen,ab   Chu Li,ac   Goki Eda,d   Yan Zhang,*c   Wei Lei,*a   Manish Chhowalla,de   William I. Milnecf  and  Wei-Qiao Deng*b  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
E-mail: lw@seu.edu.cn
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Tel: +86-25-83792650

b State Key Lab of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023
E-mail: dengwq@dicp.ac.cn
Tel: +86-411 84379571

c Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, UK
E-mail: yz236@cam.ac.uk

d Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, UK

e Department of Materials Science and Engineering Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

f Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea

Abstract

We demonstrate a novel architecture of solar cell by incorporating graphene thin film in a quantum dot sensitized solar cell. Quantum dot sensitized nanorods with a graphene layer exhibited a 54.7% improvement comparing a quantum dot sensitized ZnO nanorods without graphene layer. A fill factor as high as ∼62% was also obtained.

Graphical abstract: Incorporation of graphene in quantum dot sensitized solar cells based on ZnO nanorods

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC10162E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Jan 2011
Accepted
30 Mar 2011
First published
27 Apr 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 6084-6086

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Incorporation of graphene in quantum dot sensitized solar cells based on ZnO nanorods

J. Chen, C. Li, G. Eda, Y. Zhang, W. Lei, M. Chhowalla, W. I. Milne and W. Deng, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6084 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC10162E

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