Effects of preannealing temperature of ZnO thin films on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells

Influence of Dye Loading Time and Electrolytes Constituents Ratio on the Performance of Spin Coated ZnO Photoanode Based Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

“…As incident photons are absorbed by dye molecules, then consequetly electrons injected from their excited states into the conduction band of the TiO 2 /ZnO nanoparticles and the dye molecule gets oxidized. Oxidized dye molecules are reduced by a redox electrolyte, which transports the positive charges by diffusion to a counterelectrode [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] . The ZnO material possesses a wide band gap, low resistance and high light trapping characteristics that make it suitable in solar cells applications [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] A high electron diffusion coefficient and a low recombination rate constant are key requirements for fabricating highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells.…”

Effect of H2O2 concentration on electrochemical growth and properties of vertically oriented ZnO nanorods electrodeposited from chloride solutions

“…In fact, Fig. 3a shows that homogeneous ZnO NRs have been obtained over the entire ITO substrate, which is very interesting for the realisation of dyesensitised solar cell (DSSC) [32,33]. The nanorods act as a direct pathway for the electron transfer from the excited dye to the front contact, which favours the charge collection in the cell.…”

Characterization of spray-deposited ZnO thin films for dye-sensitized solar cell application

“…This will automatically result in high efficiency of conversion from photon to current. The structure of ZnO film plays a major role in the application of DSSC [14]. When compared to TiO 2 , the fact that a larger fraction of the solar spectrum can be absorbed by ZnO is one of the main advantages [15].…”