Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 196, Issue 3, Pages 1671-1676Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.08.032
Keywords
At-rest stability; Back illumination; Light-to-electricity conversion efficiency; Sputtered platinum layers; Transmission spectra; UV-soaking
Funding
- National Research Council of Taiwan, Republic of China [NSC 96-2120-M-002-016, NSC97-2120-M-002-012]
- Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China [AS-97-TP-A08]
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Highly efficient and stable back illumination dye-sensitized solar cell (BIL-DSSC) is developed using its Pt-counter electrode (Pt-CE) as the light-irradiating surface. Photovoltaic parameters are measured for DSSCs with Pt-CEs obtained with different with different sputtering periods of platinum layer. By optimizing the transmittance and catalytic property of the platinum layer on the counter electrode, a light-to-electricity conversion efficiency (eta) of 7.54% is achieved with back illumination at 100 mWcm(-2), when the platinum depositiion time is 30s. The effects of platinum layers with different sputtering periods on the photovoltaic characteristics of the respective DSSCs are explained in terms of transmittance and catalytic activity of the layers. A comparative study is also made on the durability of the DSSCs with BIL and front illumination (FIL), in which the respective DSSCs are previously subjected to UV-soaking for different periods of time under simulated conditions of back and front illuminations; at-rest stability tests for such UV-soaked DSSCs carried out through BIL and FIL suggest a far higher stability in favor of the BIL-DSSC, compared to that of the FIL-DSSC. Explanations are substiated with transmittance spectra, cyclic voltammetry (CV), electrochemical impedence spectroscopy (EIS), and absorption spectra. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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