A mesoscopic methylammonium lead iodide (CH₃NH₃PbI₃) perovskite/TiO₂ heterojunction solar cell is developed with low-cost carbon counter electrode (CE) and full printable process. With carbon black/spheroidal graphite CE, this mesoscopic heterojunction solar cell presents high stability and power conversion efficiency of 6.64%, which is higher than that of the flaky graphite based device and co...

A mesoporous nickel layer is used as the counter electrode in printable perovskite solar cells. A unique reuse process is realized in such perovskite solar cell devices by repeated loading of the perovskite material. Under standard AM1.5 illumination, the fresh device shows a promising power conversion efficiency of 13.6%, and an efficiency of 12.1% is obtained in the reused devices.

We have fabricated highly efficient CdS/CdSe quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) featuring low-cost cobalt sulfide (CoS) counter electrodes. Under 100 mW cm(-2) irradiation, the CdS/CdSe QDSSC featuring a CoS electrode provided an energy conversion efficiency as high as 3.4%.

Wurtzite and kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) nanocrystals were employed as counter electrode (CE) materials for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Compared to kesterite CZTS, the wurtzite CZTS exhibited higher electrocatalytic activity for catalyzing reduction of iodide electrolyte and better conductivity. Accordingly, the DSSC with wurtzite CZTS CE generated higher power conversion efficiency (6.8...

A NiS/Ni3S2 nanorod composite array that directly grows on Ni foil has been used as a counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells; these nickel sulfide nanorods exhibit excellent photo-electrical conversion efficiency when compared with conventional noble-metal Pt electrodes.

An excellent, platinum free fiber counter electrode (CE) was successfully fabricated, consisting of porous, single crystalline titanium nitride (TiN) nanoplates grown on carbon fibers (CF). The fiber-shaped dye-sensitized solar cells (FDSSCs) based on the TiN-CF CE show a high conversion efficiency of 7.20%, comparable or even superior to that of the Pt wire (6.23%).

PbS quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSCs) with a photovoltaic conversion efficiency (η) of 5.73% have been fabricated by applying Au/CuS/FTO as a counter electrode (CE), post-annealing the deposited PbS QDs, and introducing the bilayered TiO2 nanostructure as a photoanode.

A competitive power conversion efficiency of 7.01% is achieved for TiO2-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) using a chemically stable and mechanically robust molybdenum di-sulfide (MoS2) counter electrode, synthesized using a simple, scalable and low-temperature wet-chemical process, owing to its good redox reaction stability.

A solution processed method for fabricating transition metal sulfides on fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) as efficient counter electrodes in iodine/iodide based solar cells has been demonstrated. Conversion efficiencies of 7.01% and 6.50% were obtained for nickel and cobalt sulfides, respectively, comparable to the conventional thermally platinised FTO electrodes (7.32%). A comparable charge tran...

Sørensen used a slide-wire potentiometer to make his pH measurements. Here a known potential is applied to counterbalance the potential of the hydrogen cell (i.e. the hydrogen electrode plus the counter electrode) and to reduce its current output to zero, at which point the value of the applied counter-potential is equal to that of the cell potential. Since the point of balance is indicated by...