title: Improving the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells with TiO2/graphene/TiO2 sandwich structure.
abstract: This study investigates the extent to which the TiO2/graphene/TiO2 sandwich structure improves the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) over that of DSSCs with the traditional structure. Studies have demonstrated that the TiO2/graphene/TiO2 sandwich structure effectively enhances the open circuit voltage (V oc), short-circuit current density (J sc), and photoelectrical conversion efficiency (η) of DSSCs. The enhanced performance of DSSCs with the sandwich structure can be attributed to an increase in electron transport efficiency and in the absorption of light in the visible range. The DSSC with the sandwich structure in this study exhibited a V oc of 0.6 V, a high J sc of 11.22 mA cm(-2), a fill factor (FF) of 0.58, and a calculated η of 3.93%, which is 60% higher than that of a DSSC with the traditional structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electro-optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, 3 Sec., Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Lung-Chien
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Electro-optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, 3 Sec., Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chih-Hung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.affiliation: Department of Electro-optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, 3 Sec., Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Po-Shun
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.affiliation: Department of Electro-optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, 3 Sec., Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Xiuyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Electro-optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, 3 Sec., Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Cing-Jhih
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Huang
keywords: Graphene; Sandwich structure; Solar cells; TiO2