Electrophoretic Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes Electrode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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10.2991/eame-15.2015.15How to use a DOI?

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dye-sensitized solar cells; carbon nanotubes;electrophoretic deposition;surface area

Abstract

Generally dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) consists of a transparent electrode, TiO2, dye, electrolysis solution and Pt as a counter electrode.In our study, we substituted carbon nanotubes (CNT) for counter electrodes to improve the performance of DSSC owing to their advantages as high catalytic activity, large surface area, and low cost. To coat CNT withFluorine doped tin oxide(FTO) glass, we adopted Electrophoretic deposition (EPD). It was shown to be a convenient method to fabricate uniform coatings of CNT with desired thickness changing voltage, electrophoresis time and inter electrode distance [1]. After EPD, we sinteredFTO glass coated CNT and we changed sintering temperature of it. As a result of having observed it with atomic force microscopy (AFM), surface area of CNT improved if baking temperature rose.From this result, improvement in the conversion efficiency of DSSC is expectable and sintering temperature after EPD is very important for DSSC.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - S. Fukutomi
AU  - K. Tamiya
AU  - T. Watanabe
AU  - K. Taguchi
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - Electrophoretic Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes Electrode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Electrical, Automation and Mechanical Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 55
EP  - 58
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/eame-15.2015.15
DO  - 10.2991/eame-15.2015.15
ID  - Fukutomi2015/07
ER  -