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Electrochemical design of ZnO hierarchical structures for dye-sensitized solar cells
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SYSNO ASEP 0384100 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Electrochemical design of ZnO hierarchical structures for dye-sensitized solar cells Author(s) Guerin, V. M. (FR)
Rathouský, Jiří (UFCH-W) RID, ORCID
Pauporté, T. (FR)Source Title Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. - : Elsevier - ISSN 0927-0248
Roč. 102, JUL 2012 (2012), s. 8-14Number of pages 7 s. Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords ZnO hierarchical structures ; epitaxy ; dye-sensitized solar cell Subject RIV CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry R&D Projects KAN100400702 GA AV ČR - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR) CEZ AV0Z40400503 - UFCH-W (2005-2011) UT WOS 000305100200003 DOI 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.11.046 Annotation ZnO single-crystalline nanowires (NWs) are highly relevant 1D-nanostructures for efficient charge collection in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In a first part of the paper, ZnO-NWs have been grown by electrochemistry on various fluorine-doped transparent oxide (FM) coated glass substrates. The effects of substrate treatments and of the presence of an underlayer of TiO2 or ZnO on the cell performance are reported. In particular, we show that the presence of a TiO2 underlayer gives rise to a dense array of ZnO-NWs with a high aspect ratio ( > 30) and to the cells with the best performances. However, the roughness of the NW arrayed films were not sufficient for the efficient harvesting of sunlight and low fill factors were found. In a second step, hierarchical structures have been designed by growing electrochemically a secondary nanoporous epitaxial ZnO phase on the wire surface. We have found that the cell performances were significantly improved in that case due to a much larger specific surface area and to a much better fill factor. We also show that the cell efficiencies of hierarchical structures did not follow the performances of the starting ZnO-NWs. The volume occupied by the second phase, its thickness and its connection to the wires are important parameters for cell optimizing. Workplace J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry Contact Michaela Knapová, michaela.knapova@jh-inst.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 196 Year of Publishing 2013
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