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Enhanced efficiency of bifacial and back-illuminated Ti foil based flexible dye-sensitized solar cells by decoration of mesoporous SiO2 layer on TiO2 anode

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  1. aNational Central University
  2. bCentral Electrochemical Research Institute
  • *Corresponding authors: Lee, Kun-Mu, Wu, Chun-Guey.

Journal of Power Sources, 232, 1–6 (2013).

Research topic: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Abstract

The present study focuses on enhancing the efficiency of bifacial and back-illuminated dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) by incorporating SiO2 mesoporous layer on TiO2 electrode. The performance of DSCs is investigated by UV-visible spectroscopy, incident photon conversion efficiency (IPCE) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). It is observed that the current ratio of back- to front-DSC increases with the increase in the thickness of SiO2 layer, which in turn influences the incident light to dyed-TiO2 electrode, especially in the wavelength of 400-600 nm. The Ti foil based flexible small (0.28 cm(2)) and sub-module (5 cm x 10 cm) DSCs having this modification show high conversion efficiencies of 6.76 and 5.54% respectively under 100 mW cm(-2) (AM 1.5). (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Back-illuminatedDye-sensitized solar cellsTi foilMesoporous film
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