Investigation of electrical values of low-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)
ENERGY, cilt.199, 2020 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 199
- Basım Tarihi: 2020
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117222
- Dergi Adı: ENERGY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, PASCAL, Aerospace Database, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, Applied Science & Technology Source, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), CAB Abstracts, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, Computer & Applied Sciences, Environment Index, Geobase, INSPEC, Metadex, Pollution Abstracts, Public Affairs Index, Veterinary Science Database, Civil Engineering Abstracts
- Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Indium-tin-oxide (ITO)/density (d)- titanium dioxide (TiO2)/nonporous (nonp)-TiO2 is a TiO2-based bilayer photoanode. These photoanodes coated for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were with nonp-TiO2 surface and had very thick ITO layer. DSSCs were fabricated with these photoanodes. After their current density-voltage (J-V) were analyzed, it was seen that they were low efficiency and the shape of their J-V curve was linear line instead of rectangle. In this study, it was examined the relationship between the dark current (I-DC), the series resistance (Rs) and the shunt resistance (Rsh) were examined for evaluating the fill factor (FF) of low-efficiency DSSCs because of the photoanodes with nonp-TiO2 surfaces and very thick ITO for contact layer. It was seen in the J-V graph of DSSCs which had low FF value due to their I-DC and low Rsh. The J-V graph of low-efficiency DSSCs is linear due to their low Rsh and high Rs values. Moreover, the too thick ITO layer decreases the resistance of photoanodes; however, electrons in these photoanodes can not efficiently transferred to external circuit from ITO contact layer of DSSCs. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.