Synthesis and characterization of Nb doped titania for dye sensitized solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 000685-000689

  Siddiki, M K ^a,b   Munoz Rojas, D ^b   Oro, J ^b   Li, Jing J ^a   Qiao, Q ^a   Galipeau, D W ^a   Lira Cantu, M ^b  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

Author keywords

DSSC; FullProf profile matching; Hydrothermal synthesis; Titania anatase

Indexed keywords

ANATASE PHASE; ANATASE STRUCTURES; CELL VOLUME; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; DOPED TITANIA; DOPED-TIO; DSSC; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; NB DOPING; ORGANICS; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; RECOMBINATION RATE; RED SHIFT; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION; SYNTHESIZED POWDER; TIO; UNIT CELL PARAMETERS; UV-VIS ABSORPTION SPECTRA; XRD ANALYSIS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); NIOBIUM; OXIDE MINERALS; SOLAR CELLS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSITION METALS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77951581043     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411580     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. N. Stern, "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change," 2006 ed. vol. 2009 London: UK Treasury Department 2006.
2. EIA, "International Energy Outlook 2009", 2009 ed. vol. 2009 Washington, D.C.: Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, 2009.
3. F. Gao, Y. Wang, D. Shi, J. Zhang, M. Wang, X. Jing, R. Humphry-Baker, P. Wang, S. M. Zakeeruddin, and M. Gratzel, "Enhance the Optical Absorptivity of Nanocrystalline TiO2 Film with High Molar Extinction Coefficient Ruthenium Sensitizers for High Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 130, pp. 10720-10728, 2008.
4. M. Junghanel, "Novel aqueous electrolyte films for hole conduction in dye sensitized solar cells and development of an electron transport model," in Physical Science. vol. Ph.D. Berlin: Freie Universitat, 2007.
5. 2, Films," Nature, vol. 353, pp. 737-740, Oct 24 1991.
6. H. Tributsch, "Dye sensitization solar cells: a critical assessment of the learning curve," Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 248, pp. 1511-1530, Jul 2004.
7. M. Fernandez-Garcia, A. Martinez-Arias, A. Fuerte, and J. C. Conesa, "Nanostructured Ti-W Mixed-Metal Oxides: Structural and Electronic Properties," The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, pp. 6075-6083, 2005. (Pubitemid 40496815)
8. 2, Narrowed by Anion- and Cation-Doping of Titanium Dioxide in Second-Generation Photocatalysts?," The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, pp. 24287-24293, 2006.
9. H. G. Pedro Atienzar, Jean-Yves Chane-Ching, Avelino Corma "Hierarchically mesostructured doped CeO with potential for solar-cell use," Nature Materials, vol. 3, pp. 394-397, 2004.
10. 2s," The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, pp. 15277-15288, 2007.
11. 2 Films on Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Chinese Physics Letters, vol. 23, pp. 2288-2291, 2006.
12. 2 Nanorods: Preparation and Application in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Chemistry - An Asian Journal, vol. 1, pp. 737-741, 2006.
13. Y. F. A. V. Emeline, X. Zhang, M. Jin, T. Murakami, and A. Fujishima, "Photoelectrochemical Behavior of Nb-Doped TiO2 Electrodes" J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 109, pp. 24441-24444, 2005.
14. W. K. Liu, G. M. Salley, and D. R. Gamelin, "Spectroscopy of Photovoltaic and Photoconductive Nanocrystalline Co2+-Doped ZnO Electrodes," The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, pp. 14486-14495, 2005. (Pubitemid 41156820)
15. T. L. T. O. Diwald, T. Zubkov, E. G. Goralski, S. D. Walck, and J. T. Yates Jr., "Photochemical Activity of Nitrogen-Doped Rutile TiO2(110) in Visible Light," J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 108, pp. 6004-6008, 2004.
16. J. Owen, M. S. Son, K. H. Yoo, B. D. Ahn, and S. Y. Lee, "Organic photovoltaic devices with Ga-doped ZnO electrode," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, pp. 033512-33513, 2007.
17. 2," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, pp. 252101-252111 252101-3, 2005.
18. Y. F. T. L. Chen, Y. Hirose, T. Hitosugi, T. Shimada and T. Hasegawa, "Anatase phase stability and doping concentration dependent refractivity in codoped transparent conducting TiO2 films," J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol. 40, pp. 5961-5964, 2007.
19. T. Miyagi, M. Kamei, I. Sakaguchi, T. Mitsuhashi, and A. Yamazaki, "Photocatalytic Property and Deep Levels of Nb-doped Anatase TiO2 Film Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Depostion," J. J. App. Phys., vol. 43, pp. 775-776, 2004.
20. T. M. R. Asahi, T. Ohwaki, K. Aoki, Y. Taga "Visible-Light Photocatalysis in Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxides" Science, vol. 293, pp. 269-271, 2001.
21. M. Lira-Cantu and F. C. Krebs, "Hybrid solar cells based on MEH-PPV and thin film semiconductor oxides (TiO2, Nb2O5, ZnO, CeO2 and CeO2-TiO2): Performance improvement during long-time irradiation," Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, vol. 90, pp. 2076-2086, 2006.
22. A. Mattsson, M. Leideborg, K. Larsson, G. Westin, and L. Osterlund, "Adsorption and Solar Light Decomposition of Acetone on Anatase TiO2 and Niobium Doped TiO2 Thin Films," The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, pp. 1210-1220, 2006. (Pubitemid 43301120)
23. J. Rodriguez-Carvajal, "Recent Advances in Magnetic Structure Determination by Neutron Powder Diffraction," Physica B, vol. 92, p. 55, 1993.
24. J. Rodriguez-Carvajal, "FullProf Program: Multipattern Rietveld, Profile Matching and Integrated Intensity Refinement of X-ray and Neutron Diffraction Data " Laboratoire Leon Brillouin, CEA-CNRS, JRC., vol. Version 1.9c, 2001.
25. 3," J. Appl. Cryst., vol. 20, pp. 79-83, 1987.