Elucidating the opto-electrical properties of solid and hollow titania scattering layers for improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells

Thalluri, Venkata Visveswara Gopala Kris; Henrist, Catherine; Spronck, Gilles; Vertruyen, Bénédicte; Dewalque, Jennifer; Colson, Pierre; Habraken, Serge; Cloots, Rudi

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Elucidating the opto-electrical properties of solid and hollow titania scattering layers for improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells

Thalluri, Venkata Visveswara Gopala Kris; Henrist, Catherine; Spronck, Gilles et al.

2015 • In Thin Solid Films

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DSCs; Scattering TiO2 films; Solid and hollow spherical TiO2 nanoparticles; Near-IR dye

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[en] 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 (~200 nm-solid and ~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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Chemistry

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Thalluri, Venkata Visveswara Gopala Kris; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS-GREENMAT

Henrist, Catherine ; Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

Spronck, Gilles ; Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

Vertruyen, Bénédicte ; Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie inorganique structurale

Dewalque, Jennifer ; Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

Colson, Pierre ; Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

Habraken, Serge ; Université de Liège > Département de physique > Optique - Hololab

Cloots, Rudi ; Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

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English

Title :

Elucidating the opto-electrical properties of solid and hollow titania scattering layers for improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells

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2015

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Thin Solid Films

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0040-6090

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Elsevier Science

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