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Solar Cells Using Solution-derived Oxide Films as Photoelectrodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Yanfeng Gao  and
Masayuki Nagai
Yanfeng Gao
Affiliation:
yfgao@sc.musashi-tech.ac.jp, Musashi Institute of Technology, Advanced Research laboratories, Todoroki8-15-1, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo, 158-0082, Japan
Masayuki Nagai
Affiliation:
mnagai@sc.musashi-tech.ac.jp, Musashi Institute of Technology, Advanced Research Laboratories, Tokyo, 158-0082, Japan
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Abstract

This paper reports the development of morphology-tuned TiO2/ZnO films and their application to the electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells. Amorphous TiO2 precursor films with different morphologies can be synthesized under different processing conditions by our previously developed peroxotitanate-complex deposition process, which employs a supersaturated peroxotitanate aqueous solution. The ZnO nanowire aligns were grown by a two-step method, in which well oriented arrays of ZnO nanowires were prepared on a pre-prepared ZnO seed layer. The cell performance using the prepared TiO2/ZnO films shows the possibility to integrate these films into solar cells. However, the crystallization and morphology should be further optimized to improve the conversion efficiency to be a competitive level.

Keywords

solution depositionthin filmceramic
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 974: Symposium CC – Solar Energy Conversion , 2006 , 0974-CC08-04
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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