Enhance the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells by balancing the light harvesting and electron collecting efficiencies of scattering layer based photoanodes

• Published in: Electrochimica acta Vol. 132; pp. 25 - 30
• Main Authors: Liu, Haimin, Liang, Liangliang, Peng, Tao, Mehnane, Hadja Fatima, Sebo, Bobby, Bai, Sihang, Yu, Zhenhua, Yu, Wenjing, Liu, Wei, Guo, Shishang, Zhao, Xingzhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 20.06.2014
• Subjects: Collection; Diffuse reflectance; Dye-sensitized solar cells; Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; Electron collection efficiency; Harvesting; Incident light; Incident light harvesting efficiency; Scattering; Scattering layer; Semiconductors; Solar cells; Titanium dioxide; Dye-sensitized solar cells; Electron collection efficiency; Diffuse reflectance; Scattering layer; Incident light harvesting efficiency

Thin titanium dioxide (TiO2) semiconductor layer with different scattering layers are investigated in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Usually, the scattering layer is placed after the photoanode films in order to harvest more incidents light. The scattering layer based on rutile phase TiO2 is pr...