Bittner, Florian and Oekermann, Torsten and Wark, Michael (2018) Scale-up of the electrodeposition of ZnO/Eosin Y hybrid thin films for the fabrication of flexible dye-sensitized solar cell modules. Materials, 11 (2:232). ISSN 1996-1944

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The low-temperature fabrication of flexible ZnO photo-anodes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) by templated electrochemical deposition of films was performed in an enlarged and technical simplified deposition setup to demonstrate the feasibility of the scale-up of the deposition process. After extraction of eosin Y (EY) from the initially deposited ZnO/EY hybrid films, mesoporous ZnO films with an area of about 40 cm2 were reproducibly obtained on fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO)-glass as well as flexible indium tin oxide (ITO)–polyethylenterephthalate (PET) substrates. With a film thickness of up to 9 µm and a high specific surface area of up to about 77 m2·cm−3 the ZnO films on the flexible substrates show suitable properties for DSSCs. Operative flexible DSSC modules proved the suitability of the ZnO films for use as DSSC photo-anodes. Under a low light intensity of about 0.007 sun these modules achieved decent performance parameters with conversion efficiencies of up to 2.58%. With rising light intensity the performance parameters deteriorated, leading to conversion efficiencies below 1% at light intensities above 0.5 sun. The poor performance of the modules under high light intensities can be attributed to their high series resistances.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Publiziert mit Hilfe des DFG-geförderten Open Access-Publikationsfonds der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.
Uncontrolled Keywords: electrochemical deposition, scale-up, zinc oxide, eosin Y, dye-sensitized solar cell, solar module
Subjects: Science and mathematics > Chemistry
Date Deposited: 02 Aug 2018 07:44
Last Modified: 08 Aug 2018 11:00
URI: https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/id/eprint/3673
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-37546
DOI: 10.3390/ma11020232
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