Fabrication of high-efficiency PET polymer-based flexible dye-sensitized solar cells and tapes <i>via</i> heat sink-supported thermal sintering of bilayer TiO<sub>2</sub> photoanodes
Banavoth Murali, K. Gireesh Baiju, R. Krishna Prasad, Karingamanna Jayanarayanan, Duraisamy Kumaresan
Abstract
This work introduces a new type of high temperature material processing technique for the preparation of a bilayer TiO 2 -coated ITO PET polymer photoanode of flexible dye-sensitized solar cells producing a maximum power conversion efficiency of 6.33%.
Topics & Concepts
Materials scienceBilayerFabricationEnergy conversion efficiencyDye-sensitized solar cellPolymerHeat sinkSinteringThermalChemical engineeringOptoelectronicsNanotechnologyComposite materialMembraneElectrodeChemistryElectrical engineeringAlternative medicineBiochemistryEngineeringPhysical chemistryMeteorologyMedicineElectrolytePathologyPhysicsTiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar CellsAdvanced Photocatalysis TechniquesTransition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials