Energy band alignment at the heterointerface between a nanostructured TiO2 layer and Au22(SG)18 clusters: relevance to metal-cluster-sensitized solar cells-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Energy band alignment at the heterointerface between a nanostructured TiO2 layer and Au22(SG)18 clusters: relevance to metal-cluster-sensitized solar cells

Published:2021 Issue:1 Volume:13 Page:175-184
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Larina Liudmila L.¹²³⁴⁵,Omelianovych Oleksii¹²³⁴,Dao Van-Duong¹²³⁴^ORCID,Pyo Kyunglim⁶⁷⁸⁴,Lee Dongil⁶⁷⁸⁴^ORCID,Choi Ho-Suk¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry

2. Chungnam National University

3. Daejeon

4. Republic of Korea

5. Department of Solar Photovoltaics

6. Department of Chemistry

7. Yonsei University

8. Seoul 03722

Abstract

XPS study of the electronic structure of the Au₂₂(SG)₁₈ clusters and their interface with TiO₂ reveals that tailoring of the electronic band structure at the interface can be exploited to increase the efficiency of metal-cluster-sensitized solar cells.

Funder

National Research Foundation of Korea

Russian Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/NR/D0NR06662A

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