Industrial sheet metals for nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cell structures |
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Authors: | Minna Toivola Fredrik Ahlskog Peter Lund |
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Affiliation: | aLaboratory of Advanced Energy Systems, Department of Engineering Physics and Mathematics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 4100, FIN-02015 TKK, Finland |
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Abstract: | Direct integration of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) onto industrial sheet metals has been studied. The stability of the metals, including zinc-coated and plain carbon steel, stainless steel and copper in a standard iodine electrolyte was investigated with soaking and encapsulation tests. Stainless and carbon steel showed sufficient stability and were used as the cell counter-electrodes, yielding cells with energy conversion efficiencies of 3.6% and 3.1%, respectively. A DSSC built on flexible steel substrates is a promising approach especially from the viewpoint of large-scale, cost-effective industrial manufacturing of the cells. |
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Keywords: | Dye-sensitized solar cell Metal substrate Counter-electrode |
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