Low-cost copper zinc tin sulfide counter electrodes for high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

Xukai Xin; Ming He; Wei Han; Jaehan Jung; Zhiqun Lin

doi:10.1002/anie.201104786

Low-cost copper zinc tin sulfide counter electrodes for high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

Xukai Xin, Ming He, Wei Han, Jaehan Jung, Zhiqun Lin

Department of Chemistry & Nanoscience

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Abstract

A copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) semiconductor can be used as an effective counter-electrode (CE) material in place of platinum metal, yielding low-cost, high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). CZTS nanocrystals were synthesized and then spin-coated on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass. After selenization, the power conversion efficiency of the resulting DSSC was comparable that with a Pt CE.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11739-11742
Number of pages	4
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	50
Issue number	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201104786
State	Published - 2 Dec 2011

Keywords

copper zinc tin sulfide
counter electrodes
dye-sensitized solar cells
energy conversion
photochemistry

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Low-cost copper zinc tin sulfide counter electrodes for high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

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