Corrigendum: Integration of CdSe/CdSe_xTe_1−x Type-II Heterojunction Nanorods into Hierarchically Porous TiO₂ Electrode for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion

Scientific Reports 5: Article number: 17472 10.1038/srep17472; published online: December 07 2015; updated: May 31 2016

This Article contained errors.

In the Abstract,

“Additional ~32% enhancement in power conversion efficiency is achieved by introducing percolation channels of large pores in the mesoporous TiO₂ electrode, which allow 1-D sensitizers to infiltrate the entire depth of electrode.”

now reads:

“Additional ~31% enhancement in power conversion efficiency is achieved by introducing percolation channels of large pores in the mesoporous TiO₂ electrode, which allow 1-D sensitizers to infiltrate the entire depth of electrode.”

In the Introduction section,

“About 40% enhancement of the PCE is achieved using HNRs compared to the PCE using CdSe nanorods (NRs), which can be attributed to the inherent efficient charge separation across the type-II heterointerface and favorable effects of 1-octanethiol (OT) surface ligands on the TiO₂-HNR interfacial charge transfer.”

now reads:

“About 33% enhancement of the PCE is achieved using HNRs compared to the PCE using CdSe nanorods (NRs), which can be attributed to the inherent efficient charge separation across the type-II heterointerface and favorable effects of 1-octanethiol (OT) surface ligands on the TiO₂-HNR interfacial charge transfer.”

In Figure 6b, the x-axis ‘Depth (μm)’ was incorrectly given as ‘Wavelength (nm)’. The correct Figure 6b appears below as Figure 1.

Figure 1.

In the Results section under subheading ‘The Effect of Polystyrene Bead-Induced Percolating Pores on the PV Performance’,

“Our simple approach utilizing sacrificial spherical additives results in ~32% additional enhancement in J_sc compared to the OT-CdSe/CdSe_0.4Te_0.6 HNR-SSC from the mp-TiO₂ electrode without polystyrene microbead-induced percolating pores, yielding a 3.02% efficient PV device.”

now reads:

“Our simple approach utilizing sacrificial spherical additives results in ~34% additional enhancement in J_sc compared to the OT-CdSe/CdSe_0.4Te_0.6 HNR-SSC from the mp-TiO₂ electrode without polystyrene microbead-induced percolating pores, yielding a 3.02% efficient PV device.”

These errors have now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.