Electrophoretic Deposition of TiO2 Films on Metal Mesh for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Da Long Cheng; Yu Ching Hsu; Kuo Sheng Kao; Hong Jie Su; Chia Hua Liang; Chih Ming Wang

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.712-715.329

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Electrophoretic Deposition of TiO₂ Films on Metal Mesh for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Abstract:

Transparent conducting oxides (TCO) are commonly used in electrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The flexible DSSCs presented in this work was changed to be based on stainless steel (StSt) meshes and the mesoporous TiO₂ films were fabricated by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method which consists of repetitive short-term depositions with intermediate drying. The optimum efficiency was found by changing the TiO₂ concentration of EPD solution and the potential difference between the electrodes. The experimental results show that the photovoltaic efficiency (η) of the DSSC with an active size of 1 cm² is 3.25% under an electric field of 60 V/cm and a TiO₂ concentration of EPD solution of 1.0wt%.