Fabrication of a counter electrode using glucose as carbon material for dye sensitized solar cells |
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| Affiliation: | 1. State Key Discipline Laboratory of Wide BandGap Semiconductor Technology, School of Microelectronics, Xidian University, Xi''an 710071, PR China;2. School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi''an 710071, PR China;3. Faculty of Science, University of Paris-Sud, Paris 91400, France;4. Faculty of Information Engineering & Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650051, PR China;1. School of Chemistry & Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, South Africa;2. Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria;1. Unité de physique des dispositifs à semi-conducteurs, Tunis EL MANAR University, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia;2. Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Zarzouna 7021, Tunisia;3. Physics Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Marmara University, Göztepe, Istanbul 34722, Turkey;1. Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata 700009, India;2. Department of Physics, Bose Institute, 93/1, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata 700009, India |
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| Abstract: | Carbon material was produced from the graphitization of glucose at high temperature in flowing argon. The produced carbon material was characterized using Scanning electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and XRD. Carbon slurry of the produced carbon was made in ethanol by using polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as surfactant. Carbon slurry was coated homogeneously on fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) glass by a doctor blade technique and applied as counter electrode for dye synthesized solar cell. The current density (J) and open circuit voltage (VOC) of fabricated cell was 8.30 mA cm−2 and 0.77 V respectively. The efficiency of the cell was 3.63%, which is comparable to 5.82% of cell with platinum counter electrode under the same experimental conditions. |
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| Keywords: | Carbon material Counter electrode Dye-sensitized solar cells |
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