在染料敏化太陽能電池中，有效的使用光吸收材料並增加整體光譜的吸收量，其為當今再生能源的材料應用中主要挑戰之一。在本實驗中，多型態的金奈米結構成功地被合成於FTO基板上，並作為染料敏化太陽能電池光陰極使用。論文中所提的製備光陰極方法與現有技術相比，其為更容易、快速且低成本。在元件測試上，多型態金奈米結構其光電轉換率比標準的鉑對電極高出16%，且與鈷電解液之間具有較高的催化能力。此效率的提升，主要是受到金奈米結構較佳的電性能力，與局域表面電漿共振退干涉所造成的非輻射性熱電子效應。此外，吾人經由X光繞射實驗得知不同條件下之多型態金奈米結構其(111)/(200)比例有所差異，進一步藉由模擬計算的方式，探討了多型態金奈米結構中，金(111)晶面與(100)晶面和鈷錯合物的吸附能力不同，而最終計算與實驗結果符合預期。在未來的應用上，電化學沉積合成方式不需要高溫，這使得該奈米結構可應用於大面積規模化的生產和製備於可撓式基板上並將其應用於各種柔性光電元件中。

The engineering of broadband absorbers to harvest white light in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) is a major challenge in developing renewable materials for energy harvesting. In this study, multi-type gold (Au) nanostructures are successfully attached to the FTO substrate using an adhesive to produce the gold electrode. The proposed approach for fabricating photocathode is demonstrated to be facile and cost-effective, as opposed to existing techniques. Compared with standard platinum (Pt) counter electrode which prepared by sputtering method, the multi-type Au nanostructures photocathode demonstrates significant increase of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of a photoelectrochemical solar cell of 16% and higher catalytic activity with a cobalt-complex electrolyte. The increased efficiency is attributed to excellent electrical properties and the non-radiative hot electron effect due to the Landau damping upon decoherence of the localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) in the visible light region. Besides we use scaled computational Au (111) or (100) planes with the cobalt II/III redox mediators ([Co(bpy)3]2+/3+) adsorption ability at level of theory show this computation result is consistent with the experimental values. Furthermore, the advantage of the electrochemical deposition process which does not require an elevation of temperature that enables scaled-up production of this nanostructures for large-scale and flexible energy-harvesting applications.

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