title: Fully printable transparent monolithic solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell with mesoscopic indium tin oxide counter electrode.
abstract: We present a new transparent monolithic mesoscopic solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell based on trilamellar films of mesoscopic TiO2 nanocrystalline photoanode, a ZrO2 insulating layer and an indium tin oxide counter electrode (ITO-CE), which were screen-printed layer by layer on a single substrate. When the thickness of the ITO-CE was optimized to 2.1 μm, this very simple and fully printable solid-state DSSC with D102 dye and spiro-OMeTAD hole transport materials presents efficiencies of 1.73% when irradiated from the front side and 1.06% when irradiated from the rear side under a standard simulated sunlight condition (AM 1.5 Global, 100 mW cm(-2)). Higher parameters could be expected with a better transparent mesoscopic counter electrode and hole conductor for the printable monolithic mesoscopic solid-state DSSC.
authors.affiliation: Michael Grätzel Center for Mesoscopic Solar Cells, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P. R. China. hongwei.han@mail.hust.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ying
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authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Kwangho
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authors.lastname: Ri
authors.forename: Yaoguang
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authors.lastname: Rong
authors.forename: Linfeng
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authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Tongfa
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authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Min
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authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Xiong
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authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hongwei
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authors.lastname: Han