화학공학소재연구정보센터
Renewable Energy, Vol.25, No.1, 69-79, 2002
Photocurrent enhancement of interlocked LB film dye layers in a p-CuSCN sensitised photoelectrochemical cell
Dye sensitised photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells based on Cu/p-CuSCN/LB films have been studied with mixed Langmuir Blodgett (LB) films as the dye layer. The effects of mixed layers were investigated in detail by observing the changes of optical absorption and photocurrent in a PEC cell configuration. Enhancements in both optical absorption and photocurrent were found when a mixture of octadecyl methylviolet-C-18 (M-C-18) and dioctadecyl rhodamine (C-18-R-C-18) were deposited using the LB technique on p-CuSCN wide band gap semiconductor. The maximum photocurrent quantum efficiency of the PEC cell reached approximate to 36% in KI (10(-2) M)+I-2 (10(-4) M) electrolyte solution when mixed LB films were used as the dye layer. Photocurrent enhancement is believed to be the enhancement of light absorption of the dye layers due to the interlocking of M-C-18 between the double C-18 chains of rhodamine.