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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2011)

Dye-sensitized Solar Cells with Higher Jsc by Using Polyvinylidene Fluoride Membrane Counter Electrodes

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353672
Xiaodong Li
Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics and Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Rd. 3663, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
Dingwen Zhang
Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics and Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Rd. 3663, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
Si Chen
Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics and Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Rd. 3663, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
Heng Zhang
Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics and Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Rd. 3663, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
Zhuo Sun
Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics and Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Rd. 3663, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
Sumei Huang
Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics and Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Rd. 3663, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China
Xijiang Yin
Advanced Materials Technology Centre, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Singapore Polytechnic, 500 Dover Rd. Singapore 139651

Corresponding Author: Sumei Huang

smhuang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 3 No. 3 (2011), Article Number: 195-199

Abstract

A flexible counter electrode (CE) for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) has been fabricated using a micro-porous polyvinylidene fluoride membrane as support media and sputtered Pt as the catalytic material. Non-conventional structure DSCs have been developed by the fabricated CEs. The Pt metal was sputtered onto one surface of the membrane as the catalytic material. DSCs were assembled by attaching the TiO2 electrode to the membrane surface without Pt coating. The membrane was with cylindrical pore geometry. It served not only as a substrate for the CE but also as a spacer for the DSC. The fabricated DSC with the flexible membrane CE showed higher photocurrent density than the conventional sandwich devices based on chemically deposited Pt/FTO glass, achieving a photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 4.43%. The results provides useful information in investigation and development of stable, low-cost, simple-design, flexible and lightweight DSCs.

Keywords

Polyvinylidene fluoride Counter electrode Flexible Dye-sensitized solar cell
Li, Xiaodong, Dingwen Zhang, Si Chen, Heng Zhang, Zhuo Sun, Sumei Huang, and Xijiang Yin. 2011. “Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells With Higher Jsc by Using Polyvinylidene Fluoride Membrane Counter Electrodes”. Nano-Micro Letters 3 (3):195-99. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353672.
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