Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 4, Issue 2, 181(2011)
Controllable synthesis of quasi-spherelike ZnO hierarchical nanostructures and performance of their dye-sensitized solar cells
Hierarchical zinc oxide (ZnO) quasi-spheres consisting of nanoparticles with diameter of about 20 nm were synthesized via a one-pot reaction. The size of ZnO quasi-spheres is easily tunable from 80 nm to 3 μm by varying the type of zinc source and its concentration. The three samples 1-3 with the diameter of 80-180 nm, 300-600 nm and 1.2-2.9 μm were selected for fabricating dyesensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and their photovoltaic properties were measured. The results demonstrate that DSSCs fabricated by sample 2 with the diameter within the wavelength of visible light obtain the highest short-circuit current density and over light conversion efficiency, due to resonant scattering increasing the photon absorption.
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Yanhua TONG, Feng CAO, Peisong TANG, Haifeng CHEN, Guoxiang PAN, Minhong XU. Controllable synthesis of quasi-spherelike ZnO hierarchical nanostructures and performance of their dye-sensitized solar cells[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2011, 4(2): 181
Received: Nov. 15, 2010
Accepted: Nov. 30, 2010
Published Online: Sep. 21, 2012
The Author Email: TONG Yanhua (tyh@hutc.zj.cn)