Enhanced photoelectric conversion efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells via the incorporation of one dimensional luminescent BaWO4:Eu3+ nanowires

Yuping Wang; Yang Qu; Kai Pan; Guofeng Wang; Yadong Li

doi:10.1039/C6CC06286E

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Enhanced photoelectric conversion efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells via the incorporation of one dimensional luminescent BaWO₄:Eu³⁺ nanowires†

Yuping Wang,^a Yang Qu,^a Kai Pan,^a Guofeng Wang*^a and Yadong Li^b

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^a Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, P. R. China
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^b Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

Abstract

One dimensional hierarchical BaWO₄:Eu³⁺ nanowires have been prepared via a hydrothermal method for the first time. The obtained BaWO₄:Eu³⁺ nanowires are not only a promising down-conversion luminescence material, but also can be used to improve the efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells, resulting an efficiency of 7.66%, which is a noticeable enhancement of 15% compared to the cell without BaWO₄:Eu³⁺ nanowires. We suggest that the enhancement of the efficiencies of the TiO₂–BaWO₄:Eu³⁺ composite cells was mainly related to the light scattering of BaWO₄:Eu³⁺.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC06286E
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 29 Jul 2016
Accepted: 15 Aug 2016
First published: 23 Aug 2016

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Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 11124-11126

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Enhanced photoelectric conversion efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells via the incorporation of one dimensional luminescent BaWO₄:Eu³⁺ nanowires

Y. Wang, Y. Qu, K. Pan, G. Wang and Y. Li, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 11124 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC06286E

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