Plasmonic enhanced tandem dye-sensitized solar cell with metallic nanostructures
AssigneeCity University of Hong Kong
InventorsSiu-pang Ng, Chi-man Lawrence Wu, Chun-sing Lee
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Abstract
The present invention is concerned with a plasmonic enhanced tandem dye sensitized solar cell system. The system has plasmonic nanostructures integrated to both a photoanode and a photocathode for enhancing respective electron and hole carrier transfer.
Claims14
A plasmonic enhanced tandem dye sensitized solar cell system comprising plasmonic nanostructures integrated to both a photoanode and a photocathode for enhancing respective electron and hole carrier transfer, wherein the photoanode comprises:
- a) a mesoporous n-type semiconducting material arranged on a transparent conductive substrate;
- b) plasmonic nanostructures integrated to an n-type semiconducting material acting as an electron acceptor material;
- and
- c) a dye sensitizer acting as an electron donor material.
A plasmonic enhanced tandem dye sensitized solar cell system comprising plasmonic nanostructures integrated to both a photoanode and a photocathode for enhancing respective electron and hole carrier transfer,
- wherein the photanode comprises:
- a) a mesoporous n-type semiconducting material arranged on a transparent conductive substrate;
- b) plasmonic nanostructures integrated to an n-type semiconducting material acting as an electron acceptor material;
- and
- c) a dye sensitizer acting as an electron donor material;
- wherein the photocathode comprises:
- d) a mesoporous p-type semiconducting material arranged on the transparent conductive substrate;
- e) plasmonic nanostructures integrated to a p-type semiconducting material acting as a p-type semiconductor as the hole acceptor material;
- and
- f) a dye sensitizer acting as a hole donor material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.