new kinds of hydroquinone derivatives were synthesized and along with a azo dye applied as additives in the iodide/iodine redox electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells and their effect on the short-circuit photocurrent of dye sensitized solar cells was investigated. addition of 0.05 m a hydroquinone derivative in the electrolyte comprising 0.5 m 1-methyl-3-propylimidazolium iodide (mpii) and...

Porous silicon (PS) can be used as a loading template in sensing or matrix to develop nanoparticle arrays. We present comprehensive study of PS morphology and optical properties before after the pore opening process, including determination thickness, size, density layers, its surface wettability, reflectivity. The samples were fabricated by electrochemical anodization monocrystalline wafer 5–2...

Emerging self powered systems challenge and dictate the direction of research in energy harvesting (EH). State of the art in energy harvesting is being applied in various fields using different single energy sources or a combination of two or more sources. In certain applications like smart packaging, radio frequency (RF) is the preferred method to power the electronics while for smart building...

We demonstrate, numerically, that with a 60 nanometer layer of optical up-conversion material, embedded with plasmonic core-shell nano-rings and placed below a sub-micron silicon conical-pore photonic crystal it is possible to absorb sunlight well above the Lambertian limit in the 300-1100 nm range. With as little as 500 nm, equivalent bulk thickness of silicon, the maximum achievable photo-cur...

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the key anodic in electrochemical water splitting. OER a four-electron process with sluggish kinetics. RuO2 and IrO2 are benchmark catalysts for OER. Thus, finding low-cost, earth-abundant, stable electrocatalyst big challenge. In this work, we report over Se-CuO/CF nanoarrays an ultralow overpotential of 440 mV (at 50 mA/cm2 current density). nanoarray ha...

The development of highly efficient and stable photoelectrode materials is significant importance for the conversion solar energy into chemical fuels. Herein, a novel Ni@NiO/BiVO4 photoanode designed prepared water splitting by deposition Ni particles on surface BiVO4 with subsequent thermal treatment. integration Ni@NiO core–shell structure can efficiently passivate states accelerate oxygen ev...

We have developed a process of growing ultrathin oxide on polysilicon layer by using Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) N2O plasma. Sub-4 nm thick polyoxide on n+ and p+ polysilicon layer were grown and characterized. The oxides have relatively large breakdown voltage, small electron trapping and QBD up to 7 C/ for polyoxide on p+ cm2 polysilicon and up to 5 C/ for polyoxide on n+ polysilicon u...

Ag2S quantum dots were deposited on the surface of TiO2 nanorod arrays by a two-step photodeposition. The prepared TiO2 nanorod arrays as well as the Ag2S deposited electrodes were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, and transmission electron microscope, suggesting a large coverage of Ag2S quantum dots on the ordered TiO2 nanorod arrays. UV-vis absorption spectra o...

In this study, poly(3,3-dibenzyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-thieno[3,4-b][1,4]dioxepine)/platinum composite films (PProDOT-Bz2/Pt) were used as counter electrodes (CEs) in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The composite films were prepared on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass by radio frequency (RF) sputtering to deposit platinum (Pt) for 30 s. Afterwards, PProDOT-Bz2 was deposited on the Pt–FTO glass...