Effects of doping, morphology and film-thickness of photo-anode materials for dye sensitized solar cell application – A review
IR@CMERI: CSIR- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur
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Effects of doping, morphology and film-thickness of photo-anode materials for dye sensitized solar cell application – A review
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Sengupta, D.
Das, P. Mondal, B. Mukherjee, K. |
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Dye sensitised solar cell
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Dye sensitized solar cells are attractive as simple and low cost renewable energy source. In dye sensitized solar cells, photo-anode plays significant role for collection and transportation of photo-excited electrons from dye to external electric circuit. Usually, wide band gap semiconducting metal oxides like titania, zinc oxide etc are deposited over transparent conducting substrate to prepare the photo-anodes. The performances of the photo-anodes depend on the band gap, morphology, composition of metal oxides and thickness of metal oxide layers. Enormous research efforts have been accomplished for studying the photo-voltaic characteristics of the dye sensitized solar cells by varying the aforementioned influencing parameters. However, the research activities executed towards the modification of photo-anode for dye sensitized solar cell application are quite scattered. It seems therefore important to summarize the research efforts executed towards the development of photo-anode for dye sensitized solar cell. In the present review, the effect of influencing parameters on the photo-voltaic characteristics of photo-anode for dye sensitized solar cell application is discussed. The descriptions have been made by summarizing the relevant literature reports.
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Elsevier
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2016-07
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Article
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Sengupta, D. and Das, P. and Mondal, B. and Mukherjee, K. (2016) Effects of doping, morphology and film-thickness of photo-anode materials for dye sensitized solar cell application – A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 60. pp. 356-376.
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http://cmeri.csircentral.net/362/
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