Transparent Conductive Oxide Films for High-Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Umer Mehmood; Mohammad Afzaal; Amir Al-Ahmed; Heather M. Yates; Abbas S. Hakeem; Haider Ali; Fahad A. Al-Sulaiman

doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2641303

Transparent Conductive Oxide Films for High-Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Umer Mehmood^*
, Mohammad Afzaal
, Amir Al-Ahmed
, Heather M. Yates
, Abbas S. Hakeem
, Haider Ali
, Fahad A. Al-Sulaiman

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition of fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) thin films of various thicknesses and dopant levels is reported. The deposited coatings are used to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cells, which exhibited reproducible power conversion efficiencies in excess of 10%. No surface texturing of FTOs or any additional treatment of dye-covered films is applied. In comparison, the use of commercial FTOs showed a lower cell efficiency of 7.11%. Detailed analysis showed that the cell efficiencies do not simply depend on the resistivity of FTOs but instead rely on a combination of carrier concentration, thickness, and surface roughness properties.

Original language	English
Article number	7817809
Pages (from-to)	518-524
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
Volume	7
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2641303
State	Published - Mar 2017

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Keywords

Carrier concentration
fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)
forward haze
open circuit voltage
surface roughness

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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