Lee K, Kim DH, Berger S, Kirchgeorg R, Schmuki P (2012)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2012
Book Volume: 22
Pages Range: 157-161
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2012.06.005
In the present work, we investigate the performance of anodic, self-organized TiO2 mesoporous structures (TMSs) in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) under front-side illumination conditions. In order to fabricate structures usable in a front-side (FS) configuration, TMSs were formed on FTO glass by a full anodic conversion of evaporated Ti films on the glass substrate in a glycerol/K2HPO4 electrolyte at 180 °C. The resulting mesoporous layers can be assembled to FS dye sensitized solar cells which show a thickness of only 3 \textgreekmm and a remarkable efficiency of 4.34%. This is significantly higher than, for example, anodic TiO2 nanotubes of the same length even after efficiency enhancing TiCl4 treatments (3.01%). The best efficiency value for TMS-based DSSCs that we currently reached is for a 7 \textgreekmm thick TMS layer, this is $≈$6.82% which is highly promising for further improvements.
APA:
Lee, K., Kim, D.-H., Berger, S., Kirchgeorg, R., & Schmuki, P. (2012). Front side illuminated dye-sensitized solar cells using anodic TiO2 mesoporous layers grown on FTO-glass. Electrochemistry Communications, 22, 157-161. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2012.06.005
MLA:
Lee, Kiyoung, et al. "Front side illuminated dye-sensitized solar cells using anodic TiO2 mesoporous layers grown on FTO-glass." Electrochemistry Communications 22 (2012): 157-161.
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