... Industrial Technology Association(KOITA).Authors’ contributionsHK fabricated the cells and wrote the paper. HK and HC did thecharacterization and imaging of the solar cells. SH and YK helped design ... dye- sensitized solar cells. ACS Nano2010, 4:6203-6211.11. Li P, Wu J, Lin J, Huang M, Huang Y, Li Q: High-performance and lowplatinum loading Pt/carbon black counter electrode for dye- sensitized solar cells. ... substrate was kept at 1 cm, and a voltage of 30V was a pplied. The counter electrodes were annealed at600°C for 1 min, after which they were gradually cooledunder nitrogen gas at ambient temperature.AporousTiO2film...
... L, Tang Y, Zou D: Wire-ShapedFlexible Dye- Sensitized Solar Cells. Adv Mater 2008, 20:592.3. Unalan HE, Wei D, Suzuki K, Dalal S, Hiralal P, Matsumoto H, Imaizumi S,Minagawa M, Tanioka A, Flewitt ... thepreparation of nanomaterials. J Mater Chem 1997, 7:1075.6. Masuda H, Yasui K, Nishio K: Fabrication of ordered arrays of multiplenanodots using anodic porous alumina as an evaporation mask. Adv Mater2000, ... anddefects, and maintains a relatively high surface area inthe meanwhile. Electrochemical anodization can be usedto anodize a Ti wire into a cylindrically core-shell-likeTiO2nanotube (TNT) array anode....
... contributed toward the enhancement of dye adsorption as seen from EDX results, and surface area was increased by the fibers. It gives many absorption sites for the dye, and the ATN that was added to ... covered and sealed with a small square of sealing material and microscope objective glass. Measurements The crystalline phase of the prepared TN and ATN was obtained by high resolution X-ray diffractometry ... J-YP participated in the preparation of TN and ATN, and in the analyses of XRD and FE-SEM results. H-BG is the thesis director. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Acknowledgments...
... Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formattedPDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. A novel method for crystalline silicon solarcells ... contact resistance. To calculate the contact resistance, Mg was evaporated on the n-Si wafer, and the Ag paste was printed on the Si wafer for reference. The contact resistances of Mg/Si and Ag/Si ... Hilali MM, Sridharan S, Khadilkar C, Shaikh A, Rohatgi A, Steve KIM: Effect of glass frit chemistry on the physical and electrical properties of thick-film Ag contacts for silicon solar cells. ...
... 342:35.20. Fujihara K, Kumar A, Jose R, Ramakrishna S, Uchida S: Nanotechnology 2007,18:365709.21. Singh HK, Agarwal DC, Chavhan PM, Mehrad RM, Aggarwal S, Kulriya PK,Tripathi A, Avasthi DK: Nucl ... fabricating a TiO2blocking layer, andswift heavy ion beam irradiation (SHI) was subsequentlyperformed as a post-treatment, since ESD allows particlesize and shape to be controlled by varying ... mesopor-ous TiO2layertotheFTOsubstrate.Therefore,analternative post-treatment may be necessary to obtain a compact, thin blocking layer with good contact amongTiO2nanoparticles and good adhesion...
... IntroductionIn recent years, nanowires including nanorods based solar cells have attractive interest due to their characteristics and processingbenefits. The nanowires-enabled solarcells allow for decoupling ... Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japanabstractarticle infoArticle history:Received 20 November 2008Accepted 6 January 2009Available online 8 January 20 09Keywords:Sn-catalyzed SiNWsReflectance Solar ... of reflectancebetween conventional planar c-Si solar cell and SiNWs solar cell.779M. Jeon, K. Kamisako / Materials Letters 63 (2009) 777–779 Synthesis and characterization of silicon nanowires...
... Qiwei Tian, Minghua Tang and Junqing Hu Chapter 5 Fabrication, Doping and Characterization of Polyaniline and Metal Oxides: Dye Sensitized SolarCells 95 Sadia Ameen, M. Shaheer Akhtar, Young ... metal titanium film on ITO glass followed by anodic oxidation was proposed. A tenaciously and dense AIP titanium layer was obtained and was bearable for subsequent anodic oxidation. In this approach, ... C, D and E are also measured and compared. Solar Cells – Dye- Sensitized Devices 20Natural dyes have also been studied for use in DSCs because they are cheaper than synthetic dyes, and...
... arrays possessed a high porosity and large surface area as compared to ZnO NWs arrays. A. B. F. Martinson et al fabricated the ZnO nanotubes (NTs) arrays by coating anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) ... Growth of ZnO Nanowires, Sci. Adv. Mater., 2 (2010) 245-271. Tachibana, Y., Hara, K., Sayama, K., & Arakawa, H., Quantitative Analysis of Light-Harvesting Efficiency and Electron-Transfer Yield ... Zinc acetate, NaOH and ammonia as capping agent. The photoanode was prepared by spreading the ZnO paste on FTO substrate by doctor blade technique for the fabrication of DSSCs (Akhatr, et al.,...
... respectively. Basically, three characteristic band peaks are obtained: a) sample 1G: at approximately 2.2eV and 2eV; b) sample 1F: at approximately 2.2eV and 1.9eV and c) sample 1E: at approximately ... 2005), carbon (Puma et. al., 2008) and (Varghese et. al., 2003) and water vapor (Yamamoto et. al., 2008), which also have the role as dopants. For instance, Khan et. al. (Khan et. al., 2009) ... configuration to the anatase TiO2 (101) surface is shown in Fig. 11. A particular advantage of cyano-benzoic acid as adye acceptor is that, it strongly enhances dye binding onto TiO2 surfaces....
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... Ebina, Y. Shibata, T. Aizawa, T. Nakai, I. & Sasaki, T. (2007) Unusual crystallization behaviors of anatase nanocrystallites from a molecularly thin titania Dye- Sensitized SolarCells Based ... to anatase phase at 0.5 h after calcination, and the amorphous-like structure at 2 and 3.5 h also changing to anatase phase. At 4 h, the anatase crystalline structure was already formed before ... Crystallized Titania Nanorods for Dye- Sensitized SolarCells Based on Formation Mechanism Motonari Adachi1,4, Katsuya Yoshida2, Takehiro Kurata2, Jun Adachi3, Katsumi Tsuchiya2, Yasushige...