title: Enhanced performance of cadmium selenide quantum dot-sensitized solar cells by incorporating long afterglow europium, dysprosium co-doped strontium aluminate phosphors.
abstract: CdSe quantum dot-sensitized solar cells based on an efficient bifunctional structured layer composed of long afterglow SrAl2O4:Eu,Dy phosphors on top of a transparent layer of nanocrystalline TiO2 were fabricated and their photovoltaic performances were investigated. The results show that a high power conversion efficiency of 1.22% is achieved for the cell with SrAl2O4:Eu,Dy at one sun illumination (AM 1.5 G, 100 mW cm(-2)), which is an increase of 48% compared to the cell without SrAl2O4:Eu,Dy (0.82%). After one sun illumination for 1 min and subsequent turn off of the light source, the cell with SrAl2O4:Eu,Dy still shows an efficiency of 0.04% under dark condition due to the irradiation by the long persistent light from SrAl2O4:Eu,Dy. The present strategy should provide a possibility to fulfill the operation of solar cells even in the dark.
authors.affiliation: Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics & Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
authors.forename: Hengchao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics & Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. Electronic address: lkpan@phy.ecnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Likun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics & Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
authors.forename: Xianqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Piao
authors.affiliation: Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics & Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
authors.forename: Zhuo
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sun
keywords: Down-converting; Long afterglow; Quantum dots; Scattering; Solar cells