Fabrication of dye sensitized solar cell with surface textured substrates

Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) possesses huge potential in solar energy utilisation and immense researches have been carried out in order to improve its performance. This paper looks into the possibilities of using maskless Reactive Ion Etched (RIE) substrates as a base for DSSC fabrication. Aluminium doped ZnO was sputtered as the TOC layer. The current cell performance has not yet achieved the expected level of efficiency but we will discuss fabrication conditions that should lead to improved performance through the reduction in reflections in the visible range and increasing effective cell interface areas of the proposed DSSC.