40% Efficiency enhancement in solar cells using ZnO nanorods as shell prepared via novel hydrothermal synthesis

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• 作者：Mohammad Ebadi^a ; Zabihullah Zarghami^b ; ^{Z.Zarghami@ut.ac.ir} ; Kourosh Motevalli^c
• 关键词：Nanorods ; Hydrothermal ; ZnO ; Solar energy materials ; Ethylenediamine
• 刊名：Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：87
• 期：Complete
• 页码：199-204
• 全文大小：943 K
• 卷排序：87

文摘

ZnO nanorods were synthesized using new set of starting reagents. The prepared ZnO nanostructures were utilized as insulating shell on TiO2 film in DSSCs. Effect of morphology and thickness of ZnO shell on efficiency were studied. Using ZnO shell led to an increase in DSSCs efficiency from 4.66 to 7.13% (~40% improvement). Thickness of ZnO shell has crucial effect on overall energy conversion of DSSCs.