10.1007/s40089-018-0258-y

Silver nanowire-based transparent electrode as FTO replacement for dye-sensitized solar cell

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  • Quang Nguyen*1,
  • Jae W. Kwon2,
  1. Center for Advanced Nuclear Technologies and Micro Integrated Systems, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, US
  2. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, US
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Published in Issue 2018-12-14

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Nguyen, Q., & Kwon, J. W. (2018). Silver nanowire-based transparent electrode as FTO replacement for dye-sensitized solar cell. International Nano Letters, 9(1 (March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40089-018-0258-y
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Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we present a novel usage of silver nanowire-based transparent electrode instead of fluorine-doped tin oxide for a ZnO–TiO 2 core–shell dye-sensitized solar cell. The Ag nanowire-based transparent electrode was fabricated with a simple coating method at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. This method potentially helps to reduce the production cost of dye-sensitized solar cell significantly by eliminating vacuum deposition processes for transparent electrodes and also enables the usage of various flexible substrates as a glass alternative. The Ag nanowire-based electrode is characterized using scanning electron microscope, four-point probe, and UV–Vis methods. With the short-circuit current density, I sc , of 4.3 × 10 −4  A/cm 2 and the open-circuit voltage, V oc , of 0.63 V, the performance of the dye-sensitized solar cell shows promising preliminary data for a low-temperature ZnO–TiO 2 DSSC.

Keywords

  • Silver nanowire,
  • Transparent electrode,
  • Core–shell nanoparticles,
  • Dye-sensitized solar cell
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