Effects of doping, morphology and film-thickness of photo-anode materials for dye sensitized solar cell application – A review
By D. Sengupta, P. Das, B. Mondal, K. Mukherjee. 2016
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Dye sensitized solar cells are attractive as simple and low cost renewable energy source. In dye sensitized solar cells, photo-anode plays significant role for collection and transportation of photo-excited electrons from dye to external electric circuit. Usually, wide band gap semiconducting metal oxides like titania, zinc oxide etc are deposited over transparent conducting substrate to prepare the photo-anodes. The performances of the photo-anodes depend on the band gap, morphology, composition of metal oxides and thickness of metal oxide layers. Enormous research efforts have been accomplished for studying the photo-voltaic characteristics of the dye sensitized solar cells by varying the aforementioned influencing parameters. However, the research activities executed towards the modification of photo-anode for dye sensitized solar cell application are quite scattered. It seems therefore important to summarize the research efforts executed towards the development of photo-anode for dye sensitized solar cell. In the present review, the effect of influencing parameters on the photo-voltaic characteristics of photo-anode for dye sensitized solar cell application is discussed. The descriptions have been made by summarizing the relevant literature reports.
Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Recent advances in photo‐anode for dye‐sensitized solar cells: a review (2017, background): “In order to achieve optimum dye adsorption and smooth transportation of electrons without undergoing recombination, a photo-anode should possess several characteristics as identified from literature: (1) high surface area for maximum dye loading and hence effective light absorption, (2) high transpa”
- Nanostructured Semiconductor Materials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (2017, methodology): “Wide band gap MOSs (Eg > 3 eV) [57], such as TiO2 [58–60], ZnO [61–67], SnO2 [60, 68– 71], andNb2O5 [72–74], have been studiedmore or less extensively and used as photoanode materials for DSSC devices.”