| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1664474 | Thin Solid Films | 2015 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The light scattering method has been adapted in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) for optical absorption enhancement. In DSC's, particle-size of TiO2 should be inline with the scattering wavelength range. Scattering particles can be used either by forming a bilayer structure with TiO2 nanocrystalline film or into the bulk of TiO2 nanocrystalline film. For improving the DSCs performances these scattering layers aim to refract/reflect the incident light by extending the traveling distance of UV-Visible/near-IR light within the dye-sensitized TiO2 nanocrystalline film. In this work, the scattering layers with two different particle-sizes (~Â 200 nm-solid and ~Â 400 nm-hollow) were deposited as an additional layer on the top of dye-sensitized TiO2 nanocrystalline film and the morphological properties were studied. By using various opto-electrical characterization techniques, the influence of these scattering layers for two different classes of DSCs prepared from N3 (UV-Vis) and SQ2 (near-IR) dyes were investigated.
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Authors
Gopala Krishna V.V. Thalluri, Catherine Henrist, Gilles Spronck, Bénédicte Vertruyen, Jennifer Dewalque, Pierre Colson, Serge Habraken, Rudi Cloots,