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Fabrication of a counter electrode using glucose as carbon material for dye sensitized solar cells

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Title Fabrication of a counter electrode using glucose as carbon material for dye sensitized solar cells
 
Creator KUMAR, R
BHARGAVA, P
 
Subject LOW-COST
REDUCTION
FILMS
Carbon material
Counter electrode
Dye-sensitized solar cells
 
Description 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 (V-oc) 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. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher ELSEVIER SCI LTD
 
Date 2016-01-15T04:45:27Z
2016-01-15T04:45:27Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier MATERIALS SCIENCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING, 40,331-336
1369-8001
1873-4081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2015.06.009
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17791
 
Language en