Enhancement of Y123 dye-sensitized solar cell performance using plasmonic gold nanorods

P. S. Chandrasekhar; Piyush K. Parashar; Sanjay Kumar Swami; Viresh Dutta; Vamsi K. Komarala

doi:10.1039/c7cp08445e

Enhancement of Y123 dye-sensitized solar cell performance using plasmonic gold nanorods

P. S. Chandrasekhar, Piyush K. Parashar, Sanjay Kumar Swami, Viresh Dutta, Vamsi K. Komarala

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The role of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of gold nanorods (Au NRs) on the performance of Y123 dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) was investigated. DSSCs were fabricated by incorporating different concentrations (0.6 to 3.0 wt%) of Au NRs into TiO₂ photoanodes. With an increase in the concentration of the Au NRs, the light absorption by the Y123 dye loaded photoanodes enhanced linearly, but the charge extraction was susceptible to the concentration of the Au NRs. With optimized concentrations (∼1.8 wt%) of the Au NRs, the photocurrent of the DSSC enhanced from 12.45 to 15.74 mA cm^-2, and the power conversion efficiency (PCE) improved from 5.31 to 8.86%. The DSSC performance was also verified using Au nanoparticles (the PCE was enhanced from 5.31 to 7.72%) for comparison with the Au NR DSSC performance, which demonstrated the advantage of the Au NRs' shape effect with longitudinal SPR due to the modified light interaction. To explain the experimental observations of the plasmonic DSSC, the Au NRs' extinction efficiency and spatial distribution of the near-fields in complete and porous TiO₂ media were also estimated using the finite-element method.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9651-9658
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume	20
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cp08445e
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

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