Impedance Spectroscopy (IS) has become a major tool for the analysis and understanding of energy conversion devices. Since the appearance of nanostructured and nanoporous materials as well as organic and molecular conductors, new models have been developed in the framework of this powerful technique to understand properly the new features observed in these novel materials. The main advantage of the technique is the possibility in most of the cases of separating all the physical processes that take place in the device or material, being able to provide in a single measurement most of the physical parameters needed to characterise the system. However, in order to properly extract the physical information from this technique an in depth knowledge and skilled interpretation is required, what makes it hard to apply to many scientists.
The Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices (POD) group at Universitat Jaume I in Spain are the pioneers in the development of this knowledge and expertise and have successfully applied IS analysis to a wide range of energy conversion devices, such as Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells, Organic Solar Cells, Quantum Dots Solar Cells and more recently Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting devices. Prof. Juan Bisquert, the POD group leader, has shared in his blog a very interesting presentation covering the use of IS in all these devices mentioned. It can be accessed directly above or by clicking here.
The Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices (POD) group at Universitat Jaume I in Spain are the pioneers in the development of this knowledge and expertise and have successfully applied IS analysis to a wide range of energy conversion devices, such as Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells, Organic Solar Cells, Quantum Dots Solar Cells and more recently Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting devices. Prof. Juan Bisquert, the POD group leader, has shared in his blog a very interesting presentation covering the use of IS in all these devices mentioned. It can be accessed directly above or by clicking here.
