title: Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N2 atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells.
abstract: The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using SnO(2) and Nb(2)O(5) counter electrodes (CEs) prepared in N(2) atmosphere yielded power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 6.09% and 4.65%, much higher than the PCE values (1.84%, 0.97%) of the DSCs using the same SnO(2) and Nb(2)O(5) CEs prepared in air.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Material Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nano-materials of Hebei Province, Hebei Normal University, No. 20 Rd. East of 2nd Ring South, Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province 050024, China. mingxingwu_paper@163.com
authors.forename: Mingxing
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Yudi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Lingling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Tingli
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Kezhong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wu