Synthesizing of a ZnO film with nanosheets structure on Ti foil for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells

Author

Chen, Hsin-Wei ; Kung, Chung-Wei ; Hsieh, Tien-Lin ; Wang, Chun-Chieh ; Ho, Kuo-Chuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Chem. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

21-24 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A flexible photoanode with densely packed zinc oxide nanosheets structured film on titanium foil is prepared under various conditions of urea. Its application in a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is investigated. The ZnO film is prepared by calcining a film of layered hydroxide zinc carbonate (LHZC), which is previously grown directly on a Ti foil via chemical bath deposition (CBD). When D149 dye is employed, the solar-to-electricity conversion efficiency of 5.95% is achieved for the back-illuminated DSSC.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; calcination; flexible electronics; liquid phase deposition; nanostructured materials; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; Ti; ZnO; back-illuminated DSSC; chemical bath deposition; densely packed zinc oxide nanosheet structured film; flexible dye-sensitized solar cell; flexible photoanode; layered hydroxide zinc carbonate film calcination; solar-to-electricity conversion efficiency; titanium foil; zinc oxide film synthesis; Decision support systems; Photovoltaic cells; Scanning electron microscopy; Surface impedance; Voltage measurement; Zinc oxide; Chemical bath deposition; ZnO film; electrochemical impedance spectra; flexible dye-sensitized solar cell; nanosheet structure; titanium foil;

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.2011.5991763

Filename

5991763