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01.08.2013
Preparation, optical properties and solar cell applications of CdS quantum dots synthesized by chemical bath deposition
Erschienen in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics | Ausgabe 8/2013
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Abstract
We reported on temperature-dependent photoluminescence (PL) studies of CdS quantum dots (QDs, ~5 nm in diameter) grown onto TiO2 nanorod arrays by chemical bath deposition. By constructing a liquid-junction solar cell, a power conversion efficiency of 0.88 % was demonstrated. In addition, we observed anomalous emission behavior, specifically a ‘Λ’-shaped (blueshift–redshift) temperature dependence of the peak energy for CdS related PL with increasing temperature. From a study of the integrated PL intensity as a function of temperature, it was revealed that thermionic dissociation of excitons (carriers) out of local potential minima into higher energy states was the dominant mechanism leading to the quenching behavior of the QDs related PL. At 110 K, the localized excitons were totally dissociated and converted to the free excitons. Our results shed light on the exciton-dissociation process in CdS QDs and can be used for the proposed solar cell application.