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Metal-based bracken-like single-sided dye-sensitized solar cells with horizontal separation
Sharif Univ Technol, Inst Nanosci & Nanotechnol, Tehran 14588, Iran..
Sharif Univ Technol, Inst Nanosci & Nanotechnol, Tehran 14588, Iran.;Sharif Univ Technol, Dept Phys, Tehran 14588, Iran..
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Structural Chemistry.
Mat & Energy Res Ctr, Nanotechnol & Adv Mat Dept, Karaj 31787316, Iran..
2016 (English)In: Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, ISSN 1463-9076, E-ISSN 1463-9084, Vol. 18, no 7, p. 5244-5252Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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One of the drawbacks of typical dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is their high cost and the high electrical resistance of the transparent conducting substrate. In conventional sandwich-type DSCs, only one of the FTO substrates can be replaced by a metal substrate. We investigated an all-metal-electrode single-sided DSC in which interpenetrated bracken-like Cr electrodes were created using photolithography; mesoporous TiO2 and Pt films were deposited on the laterally separated electrodes. Thermal Pt deposition and electrodeposition methods were investigated and it was found that a cyclic electrodeposition method resulted in selective Pt deposition at room temperature with a higher device performance. Cu or ZnO sacrificial layers and TiO2 or TiO2/SiO2 porous layers were used for the spacer layer that keeps the Pt electrode away from the TiO2 mesoporous layer and the optimum results were obtained when a TiO2/SiO2 layer was used. The best device had a current density of 8.47 mA cm(-2), an open circuit voltage of 0.685 V and an efficiency of 2.44%. The results of open circuit voltage decay and electrochemical impedance spectrometry showed the formation of a high-resistivity blocking layer, which was attributed to the Cr oxide formed during thermal treatment. The efficiency may be improved further by developing low-temperature fabrication processes.

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2016. Vol. 18, no 7, p. 5244-5252
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-281513DOI: 10.1039/c5cp06974bISI: 000370421500021PubMedID: 26813516OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-281513DiVA, id: diva2:915540
Available from: 2016-03-30 Created: 2016-03-24 Last updated: 2017-11-30Bibliographically approved

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