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SpringerOpen, Nanoscale Research Letters, 1(11), 2016

DOI: 10.1186/s11671-016-1231-1

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Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots for “green” Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Journal article published in 2016 by Hao Wang, Pengfei Sun, Shan Cong, Jiang Wu, Lijun Gao ORCID, Yun Wang, Xiao Dai, Qinghua Yi, Guifu Zou
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Abstract

Abstract Considering the environment protection, “green” materials are increasingly explored for photovoltaics. Here, we developed a kind of quantum dots solar cell based on nitrogen-doped carbon dots. The nitrogen-doped carbon dots were prepared by direct pyrolysis of citric acid and ammonia. The nitrogen-doped carbon dots’ excitonic absorption depends on the N-doping content in the carbon dots. The N-doping can be readily modified by the mass ratio of reactants. The constructed “green” nitrogen-doped carbon dots solar cell achieves the best power conversion efficiency of 0.79 % under AM 1.5 G one full sun illumination, which is the highest efficiency for carbon dot-based solar cells.