Dye-sensitized solar cells based on electrodeposited zinc oxide films

Author

Chun-Min Lin ; Chi-Yang Tsia ; Wei-chen Chang ; Wan-Chin Yu ; Tzu-Hsuan Tsia ; Chia-Hua Lee ; Chung-Wen Lan

Author_Institution

Inst. of Org. & Polymeric Mater., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

21-24 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on porous nanocrystalline ZnO films were fabricated, and the effect of film thickness on power conversion efficiency was studied. The ZnO films, consisting of nanosheet networks, were prepared by pyrolysis of nanostructured precursors electrodeposited on conducting glass substrates. The film thickness of ZnO had a great impact on the performance of the resulting DSSCs. Peak conversion efficiency of 2.91 % was obtained with a film thickness of 27 μm.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; electrodeposits; nanostructured materials; solar cells; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; DSSC; ZnO; dye-sensitized solar cells; efficiency 2.91 percent; electrodeposited zinc oxide films; glass substrates; nanostructured precursors; porous nanocrystalline films; power conversion efficiency; size 27 mum; Annealing; Decision support systems; Electrodes; Films; Photovoltaic cells; Substrates; Zinc oxide; ZnO; dye-sensitized solar cells; electrochemical deposition; film thickness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanoelectronics Conference (INEC), 2011 IEEE 4th International

Conference_Location

Tao-Yuan

ISSN

2159-3523

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0379-9

Electronic_ISBN

2159-3523

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INEC.2011.5991691

Filename

5991691