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Published on: April 25, 2018
Direct growth of ZnO nanosheets on FTO substrate for dye-sensitized solar cells applications
Ahmad Umar1, Pragya Singh, A A Al-Ghamdi
1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Advanced Materials and Nano-Engineering Laboratory (AMNEL), Najran University, P.O. Box 1988, Najran 11001, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Abstract:
ZnO nanosheets were directly grown on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate via simple solution process at low temperature by using zinc chloride and hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA). The morphological characterizations by SEM and TEM confirmed that the deposited structures are nanosheets in which some are assembled in flower-shaped morphologies. The detailed structural investigations revealed that the deposited nanosheets are pure and crystalline ZnO and composed of Zn and O only. The obtained ZnO nanosheets on FTO substrate were used as a photoanode to fabricate the dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The fabricated DSSCs exhibited an overall light-to-electricity conversion efficiency of 1.45%. A short-circuit current of 4.51 mA/cm2, open-circuit voltage of 0.610 V, and a fill factor of 0.53 were achieved from the fabricated ZnO nanosheets-based DSSCs.
