Structural and Electrical properties of ZnO Nanorod based dye sensitized solar cell

Authors

  • R. Krithivasan
  • S. Brahadeeswaran
  • KR. Santha
  • S. Sampath Krishnan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24297/jac.v12i8.6096

Keywords:

ZnO, Nanorods, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

Abstract

ThePreparation of nanorod involves simple and novel design of sol-gel process. Further, by using the prepared nanorods,
working electrode will be prepared and it will be sensitized with ruthenium dye. A platinum coated FTO electrode will be
used as a counter electrode. Dye sensitized solar cell will be assembled by using the working electrode and counter
electrode. FE-SEM and UV characteristics have been carried out at 250áµ’C, 350áµ’C&450áµ’C. The size and band gap of
nanorod at these temperatures has been found out to be 1μm and 2.95eV, 200nm and 2.86eV, 100nm and 2.79eV
respectively. The power conversion efficiency and the fill factor have been obtained as 2.72% and 0.722 respectively.

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2017-04-24

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Krithivasan, R., Brahadeeswaran, S., Santha, K., & Krishnan, S. S. (2017). Structural and Electrical properties of ZnO Nanorod based dye sensitized solar cell. JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY, 12(8), 4275–4280. https://doi.org/10.24297/jac.v12i8.6096

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