Effect of boric acid composition on the properties of ZnO thin film nanotubes and the performance of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC)

Effect of Growth Solution Concentration on the Performance of Boron Doped ZnO Dye-sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC)

“…9. The highest η produced from this work is smaller than that reported in [17] which was 0.29%. The boron source was boric acid.…”

Electrochemical production of ZnO and ZnO@Ag core-shell nanorods on ITO substrate and their photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical performance

“…This exciton peak comply to the highly crystalline nature of the nanorods with surface defects. The insets in Fig7 shows the plot of (αhυ) 2 versus hυ for the ZnO and the ZnO@Ag nanorod arrays and demonstrates that the optical band gap of the ZnO nanorods is 3.22 eV which is smaller than the theoretical value of bulk ZnO (3.37 eV) (Bu 2015;Rahman et al 2015;Yoo et al 2015;Zhang et al 2012;Zulkifli et al 2015). The possible reason could be due to structural defects arising during the preparation of the material.…”

“…The high surface area also provides more adsorbing area for film contaminants. The ZnO nanostructures/films have been used in different application areas such as, Sensor (Fabbri et al 2016;Öztürk et al 2016;Yoo et al 2015;Vanalakar et al 2015), UV Detector (Shewale and Yu 2016), UV Laser (Wang and Su 2016), Light-Emitting Diode (Wang and Su 2016), Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (Rahman et al 2015), Field Effect Transistor (Zulkifli, Kalita, Tanemura 2015), Photoelectrochemical application (Ge et al 2015), Electrocatalysis , Photocatalysis (Bechambi et al 2015;Bu 2015;Kaneva, Dimitrov, and Dushkin 2011;Khataee et al 2015;Xu et al 2012;Zhang et al 2012) due to the unique electrical, optical, and mechanical properties. Although ZnO has a wide range of application areas, its photocatalytic performance is has drawn much attention for wastewater treatment and clean energy production.…”

“…ZnO films has been grown by using various synthesis methods, such as a chemical vapor deposition (Ge et al 2015;Wang and Su 2016), chemical bath deposition (Wang and Su 2016), pulsed laser deposition (Kang et al 2006;Shewale and Yu 2016), sol-gel route (Bu 2015;Fabbri et al 2016;Kaneva, Dimitrov, and Dushkin 2011;Li et al 2015a;Tang et al 2015), hydrothermal synthesis (Bechambi et al 2015;Ge et al 2015;Rahman et al 2015;Yoo et al 2015), wet chemical method (Vanalakar et al 2015), spray pyrolysis technique (Amiri et al 2016), metal organic chemical vapor deposition (Chikoidze et al 2008;Habibi and Shojaee 2015;Nam, Kim, and Leem 2015), sole gel spin-coating method (Habibi and Shojaee 2015), chemical vapor deposition (Li et al 2015a), electrochemical deposition techniques (Chen et al 2013;Kim, Moon, and Lee 2012;Li et al 2015b;Orhan and Baykul 2012;Öztürk et al 2016;Xu et al 2012). The electrochemical deposition has been accepted as an effective method for preparing nanomaterials because it is a simple, economical, non-vacuuming and low temperature process and can be easily scaled to industrial level.…”

Synthesis and Characterization of Electrodeposited Zinc Oxide Nanostructures for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells - A Review

“…Generally, it contained counter electrode 1 , redox electrolyte and dye-modified wide band semiconductor electrode such as zinc oxide 2 nanostructure. ZnO films have been prepared by several deposition techniques including hydrothermal technique [3][4][5][6] , chemical bath deposition [7][8][9] , sol gel technique 10 , spin coating 11 , pulsed laser deposition 12 , spray pyrolysis [13][14][15][16] , thermal evaporation 17 , dip-coating method 18,19 and radio frequency magnetron sputtering 20 as reported in many literature reviews. Dye sensitized solar cell has many benefits such as low production cost 21,22 , simple manufacturing process, flexibility 23 and high conversion efficiency 24 .…”