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IEEE JOURNAL OF THE ELECTRON DEVICES SOCIETY
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 32-39Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JEDS.2016.2618839
Keywords
Titanium dioxide; dye-sensitized solar cell; Fe3O4; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; photovoltaic conversion efficiency
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 104-2221-E-224-030]
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In this paper, Fe3O4-titanium dioxide (TiO2) composited photoelectrode was prepared by spin coating method. The effects of incorporating Fe3O4 into the TiO2 photoelectrode of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) were investigated in detail by atomic force microscope, solar simulator, X-ray diffraction, UV-visible spectroscopy, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Compared with the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 2.35% of DSSC based on TiO2 pure photoelectrode, the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 3.54% was obtained. The experimental results show that the Fe3O4 acted as a catalyst to provide another electron pathway for DSSC, which could lower the condition of electron recombination. Moreover, it could be found from Nyquist plot that the resistance at the interface between electrolyte and TiO2 film increased for DSSC after incorporating Fe3O4 into the TiO2 photoelectrode, which indicated that the condition of electron recombination was restrained.
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