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Zhe He, Gentian Yue, Yueyue Gao, Chen Dong, Furui Tan. Efficient flexible dye-sensitized solar cells from rear illumination based on different morphologies of titanium dioxide photoanode[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2024, 45(2): 022801. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/45/2/022801
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Zhe He, Gentian Yue, Yueyue Gao, Chen Dong, Furui Tan, Efficient flexible dye-sensitized solar cells from rear illumination based on different morphologies of titanium dioxide photoanode[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2024, 45(2), 022801 doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/45/2/022801
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Efficient flexible dye-sensitized solar cells from rear illumination based on different morphologies of titanium dioxide photoanode
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/45/2/022801
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Abstract
The TiO2 with nanoparticles (NPs), nanowires (NWs), nanorods (NRs) and nanotubes (NTs) structures were prepared by using a in-situ hydrothermal technique, and then proposed as a photoanode for flexible dye-sensitized solar cell (FDSSC). The influences of the morphology of TiO2 on the photovoltaic performances of FDSSCs were investigated. Under rear illumination of 100 mW·cm−2, the power conversion efficiencies of FDSSCs achieved 6.96%, 7.36%, 7.65%, and 7.83% with the TiO2 photoanodes of NPs, NWs, NRs, and NTs and PEDOT counter electrode. The FDSSCs based on TiO2 NRs and NTs photoanodes have higher short circuit current densities and power conversion efficiencies than that of the others. The enhanced power conversion efficiency is responsible for their nanotubes and rod-shaped ordered structures, which are more beneficial to transmission of electron and hole in semiconductor compared to the TiO2 nanoparticles and nanowires disordered structure.-
Keywords:
- dye-sensitized solar cells,
- photoanode,
- TiO2,
- morphology
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