Abstract
Photoinduced, interfacial charge separation across a gold nanoparticles-sensitized solid-state heterojunction by means of transient absorption laser spectroscopy is first reported: charge is separated by that electron transfer from the excited gold particle to TiO2 and that from a donor to the gold particle. Based on this charge separation, solid-state gold nanoparticles-sensitized photovoltaic cell is successfully achieved using polyethylene oxide (PEO) filled with TiO2 instead of a liquid electrolyte. As a low-cost solid-state photovoltaic cell, its incident photon to current conversion efficiency (IPCE) was achieved to be ∼6% with PEO filled with TiO2 nanoparticles containing the optimized redox couples of I-/I3-. The stability of the photovoltaic cell was proved to be relatively long.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1603-1605 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Electrochemistry Communications |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Charge separation
- Gold nanoparticles
- Photovoltaic cell
- Plasmon
- Solid-state heterojunction