51. Development of Dye-Sensitized Solid-State /149/ Solar Cell.
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Ranasinghe, C. S. K., Jayaweera, E. N., Kumara, G. R. A., Bandara, H. M. N., and Rajapakse, R. M. G.
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DYE-sensitized solar cells ,TIN oxides ,SCANNING electron microscopy ,MICROFABRICATION ,MESOPOROUS materials ,SURFACE morphology - Abstract
Dye-sensitized solid-state solar cells (DSSC) based on n-type and p-type have been fabricated with highest recorded power conversion efficiency. The working electrode of the cell is composed of D149 dye-coated -based interconnected nanoparticulate (20 nm) mesoporous layer with -based dense layer which was prepared on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass substrates. deposition was carried out according to the previously reported procedure which ensures enhanced p-type conductivity of . The surface morphologies of the dense layer, porous layer and layer have been visualized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The cells were fabricated with the configuration of FTO/ dense layer/ porous layer/D149/CuSCN/Graphite/Cr-coated FTO. Then the cells were characterized using I-V data as functions of the dense layer resistance (which is proportional to the thickness of the dense layer) and the porous layer thicknesses. The optimum dense layer is found to have 1500 Ω/□ sheet resistance. The cell with porous layer thickness of 9 μm at this dense layer resistance shows the maximum power conversion efficiency of 2.28%. The solar cell parameters of this optimized cell are an open circuit voltage of 0.55 V, a fill factor of 0.51 and a short-circuit current density of 8.2 mA cm
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- 2014
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