barium staminate as semiconductor working electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells钡只有雄蕊的色素增感太阳能电池半导体工作电极.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2010, Article ID 105878, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2010/105878 Research Article Barium Staminate as Semiconductor Working Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Fu-an Guo, Guoqiang Li, and Weifeng Zhang Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Materials of Henan Province, School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China Correspondence should be addressed to Weifeng Zhang, wfzhang6@163.com Received 2 January 2010; Revised 4 April 2010; Accepted 20 April 2010 Academic Editor: David Lee Phillips Copyright © 2010 Fu-an Guo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are fabricated with perovskite-type BaSnO3 as the photoelectrode materials. Different preparation methods including coprecipitation, hydrothermal, and solid state reaction are employed to synthesize BaSnO3 particles to optimize the photoelectric activities of electrode materials. The photoelectric properties of BaSnO3 particles and the performances of DSSCs are investigated by surface photovoltage spectroscopy and current-voltage measurements. The light-to- electricity conversion of 1.1% is preliminarily reached on the DSSC made of the coprecipitation-derived BaSnO3 particles. Large current density of hole injection into the HOMO level of N719 dye from the valence band of BaSnO3 and reduced photogenerated charge recombination in BaSnO3 could be responsible for the observed solar cell performance of the DSSC fabricated from the coprecipitation-derived BaSnO3 particles. 1. Introd