Improved efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells using a vertically aligned carbon nanotube counter electrode

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 0210071-0210074

  Sayer, Robert A ^a   Hodson, Stephen L ^a   Fisher, Timothy S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; AS-GROWN; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DYE SOLAR CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRICAL INTERFACE; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; LARGE SURFACE AREA; LOWER COST; MANUFACTURING TIME; MICROWAVE PLASMA CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS; N-DOPED; NUMBER DENSITY; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; PT ELECTRODE; SI-BASED; TIO; TRILAYERS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASMA DEPOSITION; PLATINUM; SUBSTRATES; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77955192219     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001148     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. O'Regan, B., and Grätzel, M., 1991, "A Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cell Based on Dye-Sensitized Colloidal Tio2 Films," Nature (London), 353(6346), pp. 737-740. (Pubitemid 21912607)
2. Smestad, G. P., 1998, "Education and Solar Conversion: Demonstrating Electron Transfer," Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells, 55(1-2), pp. 157-178.
3. Smestad, G. P., and Grätzel, M., 1998, "Demonstrating Electron Transfer and Nanotechnology: A Natural Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline Energy Converter," J. Chem. Educ., 75(6), pp. 752-756.
4. Vlachopoulos, N., Liska, P., Augustynski, J., and Grätzel, M., 1988, "Very Efficient Visible Light Energy Harvesting and Conversion by Spectral Sensitization of High Surface Area Polycrystalline Titanium Dioxide Films," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110(4), pp. 1216-1220.
5. Grätzel, M., 2004, "Conversion of Sunlight to Electric Power by Nanocrystalline Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," J. Photochem. Photobiol. Chem., 164(1-3), pp. 3-14.
6. Wang, Z.-S., Yamaguchi, T., Sugihara, H., and Arakawa, H., 2005, "Significant Efficiency Improvement of the Black Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Through Protonation of Tio2 Films," Langmuir, 21(10), pp. 4272-4276.
7. Wei, D., Unalan, H. E., Han, D., Zhang, Q., Niu, L., Amaratunga, G., and Ryhanen, T., 2008, "A Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Based on a Novel Ionic Liquid Gel and ZnO Nanoparticles on a Flexible Polymer Substrate," Nanotechnology, 19, p. 424006.
8. Yen, C.-Y., Lin, Y.-F., Liao, S.-H., Weng, C.-C., Huang, C.-C., Hsiao, Y.-H., Ma, C.-C. M., Chang, M.-C., Shao, H., Tsai, M.-C., Hsieh, C.-K., Tsai, C.-H., and Weng, F.-B., 2008, "Preparation and Properties of a Carbon Nanotube- Based Nanocomposite Photoanode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Nanotechnology, 19, p. 375305.
9. Berber, S., Kwon, Y.-K., and Tománek, D., 2000, "Unusually High Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes," Phys. Rev. Lett., 84(20), pp. 4613-4616.
10. Javey, A., Guo, J., Wang, Q., Lundstrom, M., and Dai, H., 2003, "Ballistic Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors," Nature (London), 424(6949), pp. 654-657.
11. Cao, A., Zhang, X., Xu, C., Wei, B., and Wu, D., 2002, "Tandem Structure of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Au and Its Solar Thermal Absorption," Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells, 70(4), pp. 481-486.
12. Haque, S., Marinelli, C., Udrea, F., and Milne, W. I., 2006, "Absorption Characterisitics of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Technical Proceedings of the 2006 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Boston, MA, pp. 134-137.
13. Wongcharee, K., Meeyoo, V., and Chavadej, S., 2007, "Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Using Natural Dyes Extracted From Rosella and Blue Pea Flowers," Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells, 91(7), pp. 566-571.
14. Polo, A. S., and Murakami Iha, N. Y., 2006, "Blue Sensitizers for Solar Cells: Natural Dyes From Calafate and Jaboticaba," Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells,90(13), pp. 1936-1944.
15. Smestad, G., Bignozzi, C., and Argazzi, R., 1994, "Testing of Dye Sensitized Tio2 Solar Cells I: Experimental Photocurrent Output and Conversion Efficiencies," Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells, 32(3), pp. 259-272.
16. Murakami, T. N., and Grätzel, M., 2008, "Counter Electrodes for Dsc: Application of Functional Materials as Catalysts," Inorg. Chim. Acta, 361(3), pp. 572-580.
17. Suzuki, K., Yamaguchi, M., Kumagai, M., and Yanagida, S., 2003, "Application of Carbon Nanotubes to Counter Electrodes of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Chem. Lett., 32(1), pp. 28-29.
18. Ramasamy, E., Lee, W. J., Lee, D. Y., and Song, J. S., 2008, "Spray Coated Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube Counter Electrode for Tri-Iodide Reduction in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Electrochem. Commun., 10(7), pp. 1087-1089.
19. Zhu, H., Zeng, H., Subramanian, V., Masarapu, C., Hung, K.-H., and Wei, B., 2008, "Anthocyanin-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Carbon Nanotube Films as Counter Electrodes," Nanotechnology, 19, p. 465204.
20. Cola, B. A., Xu, J., Cheng, C. R., Xu, X. F., Fisher, T. S., and Hu, H. P., 2007, "Photoacoustic Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Array Thermal Interfaces," J. Appl. Phys., 101(5), p. 054313.
21. Park, M., Cola, B. A., Siegmund, T., Xu, J., Maschmann, M. R., Fisher, T. S., and Kim, H., 2006, "Effects of a Carbon Nanotube Layer on Electrical Contact Resistance Between Copper Substrates," Nanotechnology, 17, pp. 2294-2303.
22. Cola, B. A., Hodson, S. L., Xu, X., and Fisher, T. S., 2008, "Carbon Nanotube Array Thermal Interfaces Enhanced With Paraffin Wax," Proceedings of 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Jacksonville, FL.
23. Cola, B. A., Xu, X., and Fisher, T. S., 2007, "Increased Real Contact in Thermal Interfaces: A Carbon Nanotube/Foil Material," Appl. Phys. Lett., 90(9), p. 093513.
24. Xu, J., and Fisher, T. S., 2006, "Enhancement of Thermal Interface Materials With Carbon Nanotube Arrays," Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 49, pp. 1658-1666.
25. Maschmann, M. R., Amama, P. B., Goyal, A., Iqbal, Z., and Fisher, T. S., 2006, "Freestanding Vertically Oriented Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized Using Microwave Plasma-Enhanced CVD," Carbon, 44(13), pp. 2758-2763.
26. Matsufuji, H., Kido, H., Misawa, H., Yaguchi, J., Otsuki, T., Chino, M., Takeda, M., and Yamagata, K., 2007, "Stability to Light, Heat, and Hydrogen Peroxide at Different Ph Values and Dpph Radical Scavenging Activity of Acylated Anthocyanins From Red Radish Extract," J. Agric. Food Chem., 55(9), pp. 3692-3701.
27. Hao, S., Wu, J., Huang, Y., and Lin, J., 2006, "Natural Dyes as Photosensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell," Sol. Energy, 80(2), pp. 209-214.
28. Yamazaki, E., Murayama, M., Nishikawa, N., Hashimoto, N., Shoyama, M., and Kurita, O., 2007, "Utilization of Natural Carotenoids as Photosensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Sol. Energy, 81(4), pp. 512-516.
29. Huang, Z., Liu, X., Li, K., Li, D., Luo, Y., Li, H., Song, W., Chen, L., and Meng, Q., 2007, "Application of Carbon Materials as Counter Electrodes of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Electrochem. Commun., 9(4), pp. 596-598. (Pubitemid 46507892)
30. Jang, S.-R., Vittal, R., and Kim, K.-J., 2004, "Incorporation of Functionalized Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Dye-Sensitized Tio2 Solar Cells," Langmuir, 20(22), pp. 9807-9810.
31. Lee, T. Y., Alegaonkar, P. S., and Yoo, J.-B., 2007, "Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using Tio2 Coated Carbon Nanotubes," Thin Solid Films, 515(12), pp. 5131-5135.