Fabrications and characterizations of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with sol-gel derived gel electrolytes.

Autor: Sukmawati Arsyad, Wa Ode, Pujiarti, Herlin, Tola, Pardi Sampe, Herman, Hidayat, Rahmat
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings; Sep2013, Vol. 1554 Issue 1, p58-61, 4p, 1 Chart, 2 Graphs
Abstrakt: Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) have been fabricated by using sol-gel derived polymer gel electrolytes incorporating imidazolium ionic liquid. Two kinds of polymer gel electrolytes have been prepared. The first one is composed of siloxane polymer only, while the second one is composed of blend of siloxane and ethylene glycol polymers. The fabricated DSSC have the same structure configuration, namely ITO/Ti:ZnO/TiO2/Ru-dye/gelelectrolyte/Pt/ITO. DSSCs with the second type of gel electrolyte were found to exhibit much better photovoltaic performance in comparison to those with the first type of gel electrolyte. This fact is in agreement with the results from impedance spectroscopy measurements, which indicate more facile charge transfer process and much smaller ionic polarizations in the cell with the second type of gel electrolyte. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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