Dual function of molybdenum sulfide/C-cloth in enhancing the performance of fullerene nanosheets based solar cell and supercapacitor.

ABSTRACT: Quantum dot solar cells (QDSCs) with hexagonal fullerene nanosheets (C₆₀-NS) embedded in a titanium oxide/cadmium sulfide (TiO₂/CdS) photoanode coupled with a carbon-cloth (C-cloth) coated with molybdenum sulfide (MoS₂) counter electrode (CE) are studied for the first time. C₆₀-NS due to a favorable work function of 4.57 eV and a conductance of 1.44 μS, enable faster electron injection from the conduction band of cadmium sulfide to the current collector, in contrast to the bulk fullerene based TiO₂/CdS solar cell. The champion cell with the TiO₂/C₆₀-NS/CdS photoanode and a MoS₂/C-cloth CE exhibits a high power conversion efficiency of 5.6%, greater by ∼14% relative to its' analogue cell with bulk fuller

SUBMITTER: Das A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9087210 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature