The different types of ZnO materials on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells

Periyayya Uthirakumar; Ji Hye Kang; S. Senthilarasu; Chang-Hee Hong

doi:10.1016/j.physe.2011.06.001

The different types of ZnO materials on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells

Periyayya Uthirakumar
, Ji Hye Kang
, S. Senthilarasu
, Chang-Hee Hong

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Abstract

Different types of zinc oxide (ZnO) materials such as micro-rods, textured, nanoparticles and nanorods have been synthesized as photoanodes via a simple method for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The relationship between the optical transparency and the device efficiency has been correlated with respect to film thickness. The maximum conversion efficiency is recorded from the device containing slantingly grown ZnO nanorods. Besides, the lower conversion efficiency is obtained from the device with ZnO micro-rods. A plausible schematic diagram is drawn to explain the reason for the higher power conversion in slantingly grown ZnO nanorods over the well-aligned nanorods.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1746-1750
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
Volume	43
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2011.06.001
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes

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