Antireflective Self-Cleaning TiO2 Coatings for Solar Energy Harvesting Applications

A Afzal, A Habib, I Ulhasan, M Shahid… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Titanium (IV) oxide (TiO2, titania) is well-known for its excellent photocatalytic properties,
wide bandgap, chemical resistance, and photostability. Nanostructured TiO2 is extensively …

Preparation of ZnO compact layer using vacuum ultraviolet for dye-sensitized solar cells

J Wang, J Wang, J Ding, Y Wei, J Zhang - Solid State Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light with a wavelength of 172 nm has the capacity to convert the
oxygen contained metal organic precursor into metal oxide. Here, zinc acetate precursor thin …

The influence of magnesium oxide interfacial layer on photovoltaic properties of dye-sensitized solar cells

M Asemi, M Ghanaatshoar - Applied Physics A, 2016 - Springer
In the present study, to enhance the power conversion efficiency of the DSSCs, we introduce
MgO insulating layers at the interface between TiO 2 and electrolyte to decrease charge …

Performance improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells by introducing a hierarchical compact layer involving ZnO and TiO2 blocking films

Y Yang, X Peng, S Chen, L Lin, B Zhang, Y Feng - Ceramics International, 2014 - Elsevier
The novel hierarchical compact layer involving ZnO and TiO 2 blocking films is used to
improve the overall performance of dye-sensitized solar cells. The ZnO compact films are …

Impact of Conformality and Crystallinity for Ultrathin 4 nm Compact TiO2 Layers in Perovskite Solar Cells

KE Roelofs, VL Pool, DA Bobb‐Semple… - Advanced Materials …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid rise in power conversion efficiencies of lead‐based perovskite solar cells (PSCs)
has established their promise, motivating scale‐up and commercialization. As a thin film …

Functional titanium oxide nano-particles as electron lifetime, electrical conductance enhancer, and long-term performance booster in quasi-solid-state electrolyte for …

SJ Lue, YL Wu, YL Tung, CM Shih, YC Wang… - Journal of Power …, 2015 - Elsevier
This research investigates the design of a quasi-solid-state electrolyte for improving the
photovoltaic efficiency and long-term performance stability of dye-sensitized solar cells …

Fabrication and electrochemical impedance analysis of dye-sensitized solar cells with titanium dioxide compact layer and graphene oxide dye absorption layer

JC Chou, CC Lu, YH Liao, CH Lai… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Two different structures of titanium dioxide (TiO2) photoelectrode were fabricated to test for
possible improvements in the photovoltaic properties of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) …

Application of MnTiO3 nanoparticles as coating layer of high performance TiO2/MnTiO3 dye-sensitized solar cell

M Shaterian, M Barati, K Ozaee, M Enhessari - Journal of Industrial and …, 2014 - Elsevier
MnTiO 3 nanoparticles as coating layer of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) was prepared by
sol–gel technique, using manganese acetate and tetrabutyl titanate as Mn and Ti sources …

Light harvesting enhancement by hierarchical Au/TiO2 microspheres consisted with nanorod units for dye sensitized solar cells

X He, Y Guo, X Li, J Liu - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we developed the light harvesting enhancement with hierarchical Au/TiO 2
microspheres (AuTMS) embedded into photoanode for efficient dye sensitized solar cells …

Effect of titanium oxide compact layer in dye-sensitized solar cell prepared by liquid-phase deposition

JJ Huang, SP Chiu, MJ Wu, CF Hsu - Applied Physics A, 2016 - Springer
In this study, titanium dioxide films were deposited on indium tin oxide glass substrates by
liquid-phase deposition (LPD) for application as the compact layer in dye-sensitized solar …