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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2013.62.2.208

A Study on FTO-less Dye Sensitized Solar Cell with Ti Deposited Glass  

Park, Songyi (Dept. of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Pusan National University)
Seo, Hyunwoong (Dept. of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Pusan National University)
Son, Min-Kyu (Dept. of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Pusan National University)
Kim, Soo-Kyoung (Dept. of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Pusan National University)
Hong, Na-Yeong (Dept. of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Pusan National University)
Song, Jeong-Yun (Dept. of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Pusan National University)
Prabakar, Kandasamy (Dept. of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Pusan National University)
Kim, Hee-Je (Dept. of Electronics and Electric Engineering, Pusan National University)
Publication Information
The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.62, no.2, 2013 , pp. 208-212 More about this Journal
Abstract
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have taken much attention due to their low cost and easy fabrication method compare to silicon solar cells. But research on cost effective DSC is prerequisite for commercialization. Fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) which have been commonly used for electrode substrate as electron collector occupied most percentage of manufacturing cost. Therefore we studied FTO-less DSC using sputtered Ti deposited glass as photoelectrode instead of FTO to reduce manufacturing cost. Ti films sputtered on the glass for different time, 5 to 20 minutes with decreasing sheet resistance as deposition time increases. A light source illuminated to counter electrode in order to overcome opaque Ti films. The efficiency of DSC (Ti20) made Ti sputtered glass for 20 min as photoelectrode was 5.87%. There are no significant difference with conventional cell despite lower manufacturing cost.
Keywords
Dye-sensitized solar cell; FTO less; Ti deposited glass; DC sputtering deposition;
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