title: Photovoltaic performance of dye-sensitized solar cell low temperature growth of ZnO nanorods using chemical bath deposition.
abstract: Nanostructured ZnO photoelectrodes were synthesized on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass substrates that were spin-coated with a sol-gel based ZnO seed layer via a chemical bath deposition (CBD) method at varying times of 1, 2, 4, and 8 h. Then, TiO2 nanoparticulate electrodes were prepared on ZnO nanorods using the doctor blade technique. The uniformly grown ZnO nanorod layer had a length of approximately 710 nm on the FTO glass substrate with wurtzite structures which was confirmed through X-ray diffraction patterns. The length and diameter of the ZnO nanorods increased with an increase in the deposition time. The DSSCs fabricated with TiO2 nanoparticulate/grown ZnO nanorods and grown for 8 h showed the maximum efficiency (5.51%) with a short circuit current density (J(sc)) of 12.21 mA/cm2 and an open circuit voltage (V(oc)) of 0.70 at 100 mW/cm2 light intensity.
authors: Department of Display and Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongbuk-Do 712-749, Korea.
authors: Jeong-Gwan
authors: JG
authors: Lee
authors: Young-Cheol
authors: YC
authors: Choi
authors: Do-Kyung
authors: DK
authors: Lee
authors: Kwang-Soon
authors: KS
authors: Ahn
authors: Jae Hong
authors: JH
authors: Kim