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Electrospinning of Photocatalytic Electrodes for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
Published on: June 28, 2017
A simple template-free 'sputtering deposition and selective etching' process for nanoporous thin films and its
Changwoo Nahm1, Hongsik Choi, Jongmin Kim
1WCU Hybrid Materials Program, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract:
A facile and straightforward method is suggested to synthesize nanoporous-TiO₂ thin films for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Silver/TiO₂ co-sputtering led to the formation of nanocomposite films which consisted of silver nanoclusters with surrounding TiO₂ matrices, and metal particles were subsequently etched by just immersing in nitric acid. Nanoporous-TiO₂ DSSCs fabricated by this simple and effective process showed power-conversion efficiencies of up to 3.4% at a thickness of only 1.8 μm, which is much superior to that of conventional nanoparticulate-TiO₂ DSSCs with similar thickness.
