ZnO nanowires/N719 dye/polypyrrole-SWNTs nanocomposite solid state dye sensitized solar cells

Author

Mohammed, Muatez Z. ; AbdulAmohsin, Samir ; Zhongrui Li ; Tar-Pin Chen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Sci., Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

8-13 June 2014

Firstpage

1510

Lastpage

1514

Abstract

We had designed and fabricated high efficiency solid state dye sensitized solar cells based on vertical ZnO nanowires arrays by utilizing a mixture paste of LiI, PMII and solid iodine as electrolyte. Polypyrrole-single wall carbon nanotube (PPy-SWNTs) nanocomposites were synthesized on FTO glass by in situ polymerization and employed as counter electrode to replace the conventionally used expensive Pt electrode. Our initial results showed the power conversion efficiency of 1.87 % from the device with PPy-SWNTs nanocomposite coated on FTO glass as counter electrode.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; dyes; electrolytes; nanowires; polymerisation; solar cells; zinc compounds; FTO glass; LiI; N719 dye; PMII; ZnO; counter electrode; efficiency 1.87 percent; electrolyte; high-efficiency solid state DSSC; in situ polymerization; nanocomposite solid state dye sensitized solar cells; polypyrrole-SWNT; polypyrrole-single wall carbon nanotube nanocomposites; power conversion efficiency; solid iodine; vertical zinc oxide nanowire arrays; Electrodes; Glass; Photovoltaic cells; Radiation detectors; Solids; Zinc oxide; Nanocomposite; PPY; Solid state dye sensitized solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925201

Filename

6925201