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Influence of addition of larger particles into 3-nm particles of TiO2 film on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cellsFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
The performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) based on the TiO2 film composed of 3 nm particles and mixtures of
3 nm and 400 nm or 25 nm particles synthesized by spray pyrolysis deposition has been investigated. An energy
conversion efficiency of 8.44% (under the illumination of 100 mW/cm2, AM 1.5) has been achieved with the DSC based
on the nanocrystalline TiO2 film consisting of 3 nm and 25 nm particles with a ratio of 3:4 by weight. The maximum
incident photo-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE) of the cell is 0.91, which is much higher than the maximum IPCE
of the photoelectrode composed of either only 3 nm or the mixture of 3 nm and 400 nm particles (with the same ratio by
weight) over the visible spectrum. SEM images show the formation of clusters in the TiO2 film containing 25 nm
particles. It is proposed that the clusters are responsible for the high IPCE by increasing the light harvesting efficiency
through enhanced light scattering and facilitating the electron transport of the DSC.
Paper Details
Date Published: 27 December 2007
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 6799, BioMEMS and Nanotechnology III, 67990E (27 December 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.766953
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6799:
BioMEMS and Nanotechnology III
Dan V. Nicolau; Derek Abbott; Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh; Tiziana Di Matteo; Sergey M. Bezrukov, Editor(s)
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 6799, BioMEMS and Nanotechnology III, 67990E (27 December 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.766953
Show Author Affiliations
Hongxia Wang, Queensland Univ. of Technology (Australia)
John Bell, Queensland Univ. of Technology (Australia)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6799:
BioMEMS and Nanotechnology III
Dan V. Nicolau; Derek Abbott; Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh; Tiziana Di Matteo; Sergey M. Bezrukov, Editor(s)
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