ZnO nanorods for solar cells: Hydrothermal growth versus vapor deposition

By Y. Hsu, Y. Xi, Aleksandra B. Djurisic, W. Chan. 2008

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Performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on ZnO nanorods prepared by hydrothermal and vapor-deposition methods has been investigated. In spite of their inferior optical properties, DSSCs based on hydrothermally grown rods exhibit higher power conversion efficiency, which can be attributed to the higher dye adsorption. Hydrothermally grown and vapor deposited nanorods also exhibit different dependence of photovoltaic performance on the annealing conditions of the rods, indicating significant effect of the native defects on the achievable photocurrent and power conversion efficiency. Efficiency of 0.22% is obtained for both as grown hydrothermally grown nanorods and vapor deposited nanorods annealed in oxygen at 200°C.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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• One-dimensional ZnO nanostructures: Solution growth and functional properties (2011, background): “In spite of their inferior optical properties, hydrothermally grown nanowires exhibited even higher power conversion efficiency than vapor phase grown nanowires due to higher dye adsorption [452].”