- Title
- Molecular scale characterization of the titania-dye-solvent interface in dye-sensitized solar cells
- Creator
- Marquet, Philip; Andersson, Gunther; Snedden, Alan; Kloo, Lars; Atkin, Rob
- Relation
- Langmuir Vol. 26, Issue 12, p. 9612-9616
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la100193w
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- Charge separation at the dye/titania interface in dye sensitized solar cells is strongly influenced by the thickness and homogeneity of the sensitizing dye layer, as this controls the potential drop across the interface, and the probability of an excited electron being transferred from the dye to the titania. In this study we use atomic force microscopy and the depth profiling method neutral impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy (NICISS) to investigate the thickness and homogeneity of N719 dye adsorbed to titania before and after rinsing with pure acetonitrile. Both experimental methods show that the dye layers are closed but inhomogeneous. Inhomogeneity is more pronounced for unrinsed samples.
- Subject
- titania; dye; solar cells; microscopy; energy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927758
- Identifier
- uon:10237
- Identifier
- ISSN:0743-7463
- Rights
- This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in the Langmuir, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927758
- Language
- eng
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