Mehmood, U, Afzaal, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5474-3801, Al-Ahmed,, A, Yates, HM
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3261-0183, Hakeem, A.S., Ali, H and Al-Sulaiman, FA
2017,
'Transparent conductive oxide films for
high-performance dye-sensitized solar cells'
, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 7 (2)
, pp. 518-524.
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Abstract
In this paper, atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition of fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) thin films of various thicknesses and dopant levels is reported. The deposited coatings are used to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cells, which exhibited reproducible power conversion efficiencies in excess of 10%. No surface texturing of FTOs or any additional treatment of dye-covered films is applied. In comparison, the use of commercial FTOs showed a lower cell efficiency of 7.11%. Detailed analysis showed that the cell efficiencies do not simply depend on the resistivity of FTOs but instead rely on a combination of carrier concentration, thickness, and surface roughness properties.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre |
Journal or Publication Title: | IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics |
Publisher: | IEEE |
ISSN: | 2156-3381 |
Funders: | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals |
Depositing User: | HM Yates |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2017 10:16 |
Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2019 20:01 |
URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/41229 |
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