%O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
%X Low temperature processing of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is essential to enable commercialization with low cost plastic substrates and diminish the overall manufacturing cost.We report a low temperature processing route for photoanodes where thin ZnO nanoshell is deposited by atomic layer deposition at 150°C, on a mesoporous insulating template. We found that a 6 nm ZnO overlayer on a 3 μm mesoporous nanoparticle Al2O3 template shows a power conversion efficiency of 4.2 % with the standard organic sensitizer (coded Y123) and cobalt bipyridine redox mediator.
%C Kish Island, Iran
%L discovery10159092
%K Dye-sensitized solar cell, zinc oxide, atomic layer deposition, mesoporous template
%I International Conference on Nanostructures (ICNS)
%S International Conference on Nanostructures (ICNS)
%D 2014
%B Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nanostructures (ICNS5)
%V 5
%A Mojtaba Abdi Jalebi
%A Aravind Kumar Chandiran
%A Mohammad K Nazeeruddin
%A Michael Grätzel
%E Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi
%T Low temperature dye-sensitized solar cells based on conformal thin zinc oxide overlayer on mesoporous insulating template by atomic layer deposition