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Study on Electrode Design to Increase the Cell Efficiencies and Electrical Properties of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

텍스타일형 염료감응 태양전지의 효율증가를 위한 전극설계 및 전기적 특성분석에 관한 연구

  • Lee, Hye Mi (Department of Organic Material Science and Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Yun, Min Ju (Department of Organic Material Science and Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Han Seong (Department of Organic Material Science and Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • 이혜미 (부산대학교 유기소재시스템공학과) ;
  • 윤민주 (부산대학교 유기소재시스템공학과) ;
  • 김한성 (부산대학교 유기소재시스템공학과)
  • Received : 2015.06.16
  • Accepted : 2015.07.27
  • Published : 2015.08.31
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Abstract

To enhance the flexibility and lightweightness of photovoltaic devices, we investigated the effect of titanium mesh as a photoelectrode for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We proposed the use of a pressing process to create the titanium mesh to increase the amount of incident light. The DSSCs with titanium mesh as the photoelectrode exhibited an energy conversion efficiency of 3.25% (at 1 sun, AM 1.5). To improve the performance of the DSSCs, we proposed double-layer structured counter electrodes, with one layer placed on the top layer of the photoelectrode and the other layer placed on the bottom layer of the photoelectrode. The double-layer structure resulted in an energy conversion efficiency of 3.04% (at 1 sun, AM 1.5).

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