Panchromatic enhancement of light-harvesting efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells using thermally annealed Au@SiO2 triangular nanoprisms.
Langmuir
; 30(47): 14352-9, 2014 Dec 02.
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Plasmonic enhancement is an attractive method for improving the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Plasmonic materials with sharp features, such as triangular metal nanoparticles, show stronger plasmonic effects than their spherical analogues; however, these nanoparticles are also often thermally unstable. In this work, we investigated the thermal stability of Au@SiO2 triangular nanoprisms by annealing at different temperatures. Morphological changes were observed at temperatures greater than 250 °C, which resulted in a blue shift of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). Annealing at 450 °C led to a further blue shift; however, this resulted in better overlap of the LSPR with the absorption spectrum of black dye. By introducing 0.05% (w/w) Au@SiO2 nanoprisms into DSSCs, we were able to achieve a panchromatic enhancement of the light-harvesting efficiency. This led to a 15% increase in the power conversion efficiency from 3.9 ± 0.6% to 4.4 ± 0.4%.
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