Improved efficiency of DSSC using combustion synthesized TiO2

Sanjivani Umale; V. Sudhakar; Sharad M. Sontakke; K. Krishnamoorthy; Aniruddha B. Pandit

doi:10.1016/j.materresbull.2018.09.044

Improved efficiency of DSSC using combustion synthesized TiO₂

Sanjivani Umale
, V. Sudhakar
, Sharad M. Sontakke
, K. Krishnamoorthy
, Aniruddha B. Pandit

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Abstract

Combustion synthesis method is an economic, one step and an effective method for the synthesis of nanomaterials. In this work, titanium dioxide nanoparticles were synthesized by combustion method. The synthesized material was characterized by XRD, SEM and BET. Dye sensitized solar cell was fabricated using the synthesized material and its performance was compared with the solar cell fabricated using commercial TiO₂. In order to evaluate the photovoltaic performance of DSSCs, photocurrent density to photovoltage (J-V) characteristic and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements were carried out. The DSSC fabricated using combustion synthesized and commercial TiO₂ exhibited a power conversion efficiency of 6.11% and 6.62%, respectively. Combustion synthesized TiO₂ which displayed similar efficiency to that of commercial material is least studied in the literature for solar cell applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	222-226
Number of pages	5
Journal	Materials Research Bulletin
Volume	109
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2018.09.044
State	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Combustion synthesis
Dye sensitized solar cell
TiO

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General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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