Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cell

Figure 10.17. (a) Schematic diagram of the nanowire dye-sensitized solar cell. Light is incident through the bottom electrode, (b) SEM cross section of a solution-fabricated ZnO nanowire array on fluorine-doped tin oxide. The wires are in direct contact with the substrate. Scale bar, 5 pm. Reproduced from Ref. 41, Copyright 2005, with permission from the Nature Publishing Group. 

ZnO A1203 and ZnO-Ti02 core-shell nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells,... 

Fig. 1.9. Plain view (left) and cross-sectional view (right) of ZnO nanowires prepared from a chemical solution on a magnetron-sputtered ZnO film on fluorine-doped Sn02 on glass, which are used as a substrate for dye-sensitized solar cells [79]...

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Figure 2.27 DSC solar cell characteristics. 1.2 nm thick nanowire ( ), 1.2 nm thick gyroid (A), and 1.4 jmi thick nanoparticle ( ) Ti02 arrays, (a) Absorption spectra after sensitization with N719 (inset), (b) Spectral response of liquid electrotyte dye-sensitized solar cells, (c) Current-voltage curves under simulated AM 1.5100 mW cm solar illumination. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [56].

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Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, Fig. 4 Cross-sectional SEMs of (a) ZnO nanowires (Reprinted with permission from [62], Copyright 2012 American Chemical Society), (b) Triblock copolymer templated photoanodes (Reprinted with permission from [55], Copyright 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA,... 

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Particular emphasis is given to the patterning of quasi ID nanowire and bicontinuous gyroid arrays, both of which are of particular interest for device applications. The first study of these highly ordered electrochemically patterned semiconductor arrays used in a real device application is described in a dye-sensitized bulk heterojunction solar cell. 

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