Solar cells with high efficiency based on sensitized Nanocrystalline Titanium oxide films

Authors

  • M. M. Gómez Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Perú
  • J. Lu Departamento de Ciencias de los Materiales, Laboratorio Ángstrom, Universidad de Upssala, Upssala, Sweden
  • E. Olsson Departamento de Ciencias de los Materiales, Laboratorio Ángstrom, Universidad de Upssala, Upssala, Sweden
  • A. Hagfeldt Departamento de Química, Universidad de Upssala, Upssala, Sweden
  • C. G. Granqvist Departamento de Ciencias de los Materiales, Laboratorio Ángstrom, Universidad de Upssala, Upssala, Sweden

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21754/tecnia.v11i1.526

Abstract

Nanocrystalline solar cells were made by incorporation of cis-dithiocyanato-bis(2,2'-bipyridyl- 4,4'-dicarboxylate) ruthenium (I1) into sputter deposited titanium oxide films. After a pyridine treatment, it was possible 10 achieve a photoelectric conversion efficiency as high as 7% for a solar intensity of100W/m almost the same as for conventional nanocrystalline cells with colloidally prepared titanium oxide. Transmission electron microscopy indicated a parallel penniform microstructure, and secondary ion mass spectroscopy showed that the dye incorporation was uniform except in the bottom parts of the sputtered films where a decreased porosity seems to limit the penetration of the dye.

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2001-06-01

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M. M. Gómez, J. Lu, E. Olsson, A. Hagfeldt, and C. G. Granqvist, “Solar cells with high efficiency based on sensitized Nanocrystalline Titanium oxide films”, TEC, vol. 11, no. 1, Jun. 2001.

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