• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.202-207
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• 2024

This study examines a manufacturing process for the photoelectrode material of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) intending to increase efficiency through the surface plasmon resonance phenomenon of nanoparticles with a composite structure made of Ag and TiO₂. This invention involves the use of Ag and TiO₂ nanoparticles in the solar cell. These nanoparticles cause surface plasmon resonance, which amplifies and scatters incident solar energy, enhancing the dye's rate of light absorption. It also makes it possible to absorb energy in wavelength ranges that were previously difficult to do, which increases efficiency. Centrifugal separation and heat synthesis are used to create the composite metal structures, and certain combinations are used to decide the particle morphologies. To increase the efficiency of organic solar cells and DSSC, the Ag/TiO₂ composite structure is therefore quite likely to be used.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.94-98
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• 2011

A Sn-doped $In_2O_3$ (ITO) nanowire photoelectrode was produced using a simple metal evaporation method at low synthesis temperature (< $540^{\circ}C$). The nanowire electrodes have large surface area compared with that of flat ITO thin film, and show low electrical resistivity of $5.6{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}cm$ at room temperature. In order to apply ITO nanowires to the photoelectrodes of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), those surfaces were modified by $TiO_2$ nanoparticles using a chemical bath deposition (CBD) method. The conversion efficiency of the fabricated $TiO_2$/ITO nanostructure-based DSSC was obtained at 1.4%, which was increased value by a factor of 6 than one without ITO nanowires photoelectrode. This result is attributed to the large surface area and superior electrical property of the ITO nanowires photoelectrode, as well as the structural advantages, including short diffusion length of photo-induced electrons, of the fabricated $TiO_2$/ITO nanostructure-based DSSC.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권9호
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• pp.2583-2588
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• 2013

A new type of solid and gel-state ionics based on siloxane pyridinium iodides was synthesized and used as electrolytes in dye-sensitized solar cells. The resulting electrolytes were characterized by $^1H$ NMR spectroscopy, TGA and diffusion coefficient. The synthesized siloxane pyridinium iodide electrolytes have characteristics of different chain length of siloxane moieties. The ion conductivities were given 2.7-3.2 S/cm. Among the three SiDPIs based electrolytes, DSSC employing the SiDPI2 gives an open circuit voltage of 0.704 V, a short-circuit current of 15.85 $mA/cm^2$ and conversion efficiency of 6.8% under light intensity of 100 $mW/cm^2$. In addition, the performance of the DSSCs showed relatively reasonable compared with the propylpyridinium iodide (PPI) electrolyte.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.83-91
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• 2011

Mesoporous titanium dioxide ($TiO_2$) thin films were prepared using poly(vinyl chloride)-graft-poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVC-g-PVP) as a templating agent via sol-gel process. Grafting of PVC chains from PVC backbone was done by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) technique. The successful grafting of PVP to synthesize PVC-g-PVP was checked by fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and gel permeation chromatography (GPC). The carbonyl group interaction of PVC-g-PVP graft copolymer with $TiO_2$ was confirmed by FT-IR. The porous morphologies of the $TiO_2$ films genereated after calcination at $450^{\circ}C$ was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The mesoporous $TiO_2$ films with 580 nm in thickness were used as a photoelectrode for solid state dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) and showed an energy conversion efficiency of 1.05% at 100 $mW/cm^2$.

• 한국감성과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국감성과학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.47-48
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• 2012

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.202-202
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• 2012

염료감응태양전지(DSSC)의 광변환 효율을 향상시키기 위하여 진공챔버에서 450도 고온에서 O2, Ar, and N2 혼합가스를 주입하여 다양한 plasma로 TiO2 박막을 처리하면서 소성시켰다. TiO2 표면을 cleaning하고 활성화함으로서 염료의 결합력을 향상시키는 것 외에 TiO2 내부의 oxygen vacancy를 변화를 관찰하였다. 실험에 사용한 박막은 glass 위에 FTO 박막을 입히고, 다공성 TiO2 나노입자 박막을 코팅하여 제조하였다(porous TiO2 나노입자(${\sim}12{\mu}m$)/FTO(Fluorine doped Tin oxide; $1{\mu}m$)/glass). 완성된 광전극에 대해서 XRD, XPS, EIS, FE-SEM 등을 이용하여 분석하였다. 또한 이렇게 전처리된 광전극을 사용한 DSSC를 제작하였다. 그리고 Solar-simulator를 통해 그 효율을 측정하여 '플라즈마환경에서 소성된 광전극에 대한 DSSC의 광변환효율에 미치는 효과'을 고찰하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.1204-1208
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• 2012

A new photoelectrode composed of $Sb_6O_{13}$ nanoparticles with the size of 20-30 nm has been prepared via thermolysis of a colloidal antimony pentoxide tetrahydrate ($Sb_2O_5{\cdot}4H_2O$) suspension. The $Sb_6O_{13}$ electrode showed good semiconducting properties applicable to dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs); the energy band gap was estimated to be $3.05{\pm}0.5$ eV and the position of conduction band edge was close to those of $TiO_2$ and ZnO. The DSSC assembled with the $Sb_6O_{13}$ photoelectrode and a conventional ruthenium-dye (N719) exhibited the overall photo-current conversion efficiency of 0.74% ($V_{oc}$ = 0.76 V, $J_{sc}=1.99\;mAcm{-2}$, fill factor = 0.49) under AM 1.5, $100\;mWcm^{-2}$ illumination.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2011

The aim of this study is to evaluate how much would the building energy consumption be saved by applying DSSC BIPV window which is possible to control the transmittance and express the color in the office building. For this, physical characteristics such as transmittance and reflectance, U-factor of DSSC areanalyzed and an annual energy consumption that is connected to dimming control is calculated when DSSC BIPV window is applied by alternate clear window system. As a result, It is possible to reduce the anannual energy consumption as much as4.1% by just change the clear double window system to DSSC BIPV double window system because the major factor to reduce energy consumption in the office that has much cooling load than other building is SHGC. When the thermal insulation properties of DSSC BIPV window with low-e coating and making triple window are improved, energy saving ratio is about 9%. Plus, energy saving ratio of 25~28% in lighting energy consumption is possible when the dimming control system with DSSC BIPV window is adopt.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.269-269
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• 2009

염료감응형 태양전지는 다공질 $TiO_2$ 전극막, 광감응형 염료, 전해질로 구성된 전기화학적 원리를 이용한 태양전지이다. 전해질은 전자가 빠져나간 염료에 전자를 공급하고 $PtCl_4$로부터 전자를 공급받아 산화/환원 반응을 한다. $PtCl_4$는 하부 기판에서 전자를 전해질에 제공한다. 본 연구에서는 Sealant를 이용하여 전해질의 면적이 효율에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 관찰하였다. AM 1.5 (100 $mW/cm^2$)하에서의 광 에너지로 측정한 효율은 전해질 면적이 1 $cm^2$ 일 때 가장 높은 4.46%의 효율이 나타났다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.736-740
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• 2013

In this study, the influence of electrochemical properties by mixing Tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (TBAOH) and ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) electrode on the dssc. The titanias were prepared using a sol-gel method by mixing Tetrabutylammonium hydroxide and Ammonium hydroxide. The $TiO_2$ nanopowder prepared by sol-gel methode, and to improve the distributed properties of $TiO_2$ nanopowder, the TBAOH and NH4OH was added. The I-V values of cells show that the Tetrabutylammonium has 6.51% efficiency.