Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (한국공업화학회)
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Comparison of the photovoltaic efficiency on DSSC for nanometer sized $TiO_2$ using a conventional sol-gel and solvothermal methods

  • Lee, Ye-Ji (Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Chae, Jin-Ho (Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Kang, Mi-Sook (Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Yeungnam University)
  • Received : 2009.09.15
  • Accepted : 2010.01.19
  • Published : 2010.07.25
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Abstract

When the two types of $TiO_2$ coatings prepared by sol-gel and solvothermal methods were applied to dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) in this study, the energy conversion efficiency of the solvothermalmodified $TiO_2$ was considerably higher than that on the sol-gel modified $TiO_2$; approximately 8.51 (solvothermal) and 5.93% (sol-gel) with the N719 dye under 100 mW/$cm^2$ of simulated sunlight, respectively. These results are in agreement with an electrostatic forcemicroscopy (EFM) study showing that the electrons were transferred rapidly to the surface of the solvothermal-modified $TiO_2$ film, compared with that on a sol-gel modified $TiO_2$ film. Furthermore, FT-IR analysis of the films after N719 dye adsorption showed that the solvothermal-modified $TiO_2$ had a strong band at 500 $cm^{-1}$, which was assigned to metal-O, due to a new Ti-O bond between the O of $COO^-$ and a Ti atom. This peak was considerably weaker in the sol-gel modified $TiO_2$.

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