This thesis consists of three different studies. In one study, the photoelectrochemical effects of order vs disorder was investigated at monodispersed disordered inverse opal and ordered inverse opals with and without ...
Solar energy conversion in quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) could be improved by localizing light in nanostructured ordered systems or photonic crystals (PC) that exhibit a periodic modulation of the refractive ...
In one project of this thesis, we present the photoelectrochemical behavior of C dS quantum dots (Q-CdS) assemblies in the presence of sulfide (S2--OH-) and asco rbic acid as hole scavengers. The quantum dots (Q-dot) have ...
In one project of this thesis, we studied photonic effects on the harvesting efficiency of Q-CdSe when adsorbed at TiO2 inverse opal photonic crystals. Photonic effects at the blue-edge and the red-edge of the stop band ...