title: Highly efficient plastic substrate dye-sensitized solar cells using a compression method for preparation of TiO(2) photoelectrodes.
abstract: The efficiency of a plastic-substrate dye-sensitized solar cell was much improved by a new method consisting of a press method without heat treatment, light confinement effect of TiO(2) film and water-based TiO(2) paste; this device shows the highest light-to-electrical energy conversion efficiency based on plastic-substrate dye-sensitized solar cells, 7.4% under 100 mW cm(-2) (1 sun) AM1.5 illumination.
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, 12-1 Ichigaya-funagawara, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-0826, Japan.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tobe
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Hironori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Arakawa