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Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell by Modification of Photoanode With PbTiO3–ZnFe2O4/TiO2 Nanofibers
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices IEEE Trans. Electron Devices Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on. 70(7):3780-3787 Jul, 2023
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Powders
Magnetoelectric effects
Chemicals
Photovoltaic systems
Nanocomposites
Companies
Medical services
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)
electrospinning
nanofibers
PbTiO3-ZnFe2O4
TiO2
Language
ISSN
0018-9383
1557-9646
Abstract
This study investigates the photovoltaic performance of the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) by modification of the photoanode with PbTiO 3 –ZnFe 2 O 4 /TiO 2 nanofibers to enhance the current density and photovoltaic conversion efficiency ( $\eta {)}$ . PbTiO 3 –ZnFe 2 O 4 /TiO 2 nanofibers are prepared by electrospinning and used as a 1-D nanostructured scattering layer. There are two methods to modify photoanodes. One is a mixture of PbTiO 3 –ZnFe 2 O 4 /TiO 2 nanofibers into a TiO 2 layer of photoanode. The other is to attach flake-like PbTiO 3 –ZnFe 2 O 4 /TiO 2 nanofibers onto the TiO 2 layer of the photoanode. The DSSCs with the two kinds of modified photoanodes are compared with the DSSC without modification. This result represents that the DSSC with the modified photoanode, in which flake-like PbTiO 3 –ZnFe 2 O 4 /TiO 2 nanofibers are cemented onto the TiO 2 layer, has the highest photovoltaic conversion efficiency ( $\eta {)}$ of 5.87%, while the photovoltaic conversion efficiency ( $\eta {)}$ of the DSSC without modification is only 4.17%. The improved DSSC photovoltaic performance can be attributed to two main factors: a large amount of N719 adsorbed on the large surface area of PbTiO 3 –ZnFe 2 O 4 /TiO 2 nanofibers and a low charge recombination rate.