Enhanced light-conversion efficiency of titanium-dioxide dye-sensitized solar cells with the addition of indium-tin-oxide and fluorine-tin-oxide nanoparticles in electrode films

Tammy P. Chou; Qifeng Zhang; Bryan Russo; Guozhong Cao

doi:10.1117/1.3053995

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1 December 2008 Enhanced light-conversion efficiency of titanium-dioxide dye-sensitized solar cells with the addition of indium-tin-oxide and fluorine-tin-oxide nanoparticles in electrode films

Tammy P. Chou, Qifeng Zhang, Bryan Russo, Guozhong Cao

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J. of Nanophotonics, 2(1), 023511 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3053995

Abstract

We prepared of electrodes that consist of TiO₂ with addition of tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) or fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) nanoparticles and the application of such electrodes on dye-sensitized solar cell. As compared to TiO₂ alone, the addition of ITO and FTO nanoparticles resulted in an efficiency improvement of ~20% up to ~54% for the TiO₂-ITO and TiO₂-FTO systems, respectively. This improvement was partly attributed to a slightly enhanced dye-adsorption behavior and a change in the TiO₂ surface chemistry due to the presence of ITO or FTO nanoparticles.

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Tammy P. Chou, Qifeng Zhang, Bryan Russo, and Guozhong Cao "Enhanced light-conversion efficiency of titanium-dioxide dye-sensitized solar cells with the addition of indium-tin-oxide and fluorine-tin-oxide nanoparticles in electrode films," Journal of Nanophotonics 2(1), 023511 (1 December 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3053995

Published: 1 December 2008

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