In my study, I attempted to use the high electrical conductivity of graphite modified TiO2 nanoparticles to study the effect of graphite modification to the performance of dye-sensitized solar cell.
Graphite oxide (GO) was successfully prepared by the improved Hummer¡¦s method. Graphenes that from the as-prepared GO reduced with hydrazine hydrate and sodium borohydride were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and UV-visible spectroscopy.
The performance of TiO2 based DSSC revealed a short-circuit photocurrent density of 11.24 mA/cm2, an open-circuit voltage of 0.66 V, and a fill factor of 0.48, yielding an overall conversion efficiency of 4.50%. The TiO2 / r-GO composite based DSSC showed higher efficiency than those standard DSSC, revealed a short-circuit photocurrent density of 18.48 mA/cm2, an open-circuit voltage of 0.68 V, and a fill factor of 0.51, yielding an overall conversion efficiency of 7.83%. On the other hand, we found the DSSC that treated with small amount of alcohol in making the TiO2 paste showed superior performance to that with untreated photoanode, the ratio of energy conversion efficiency being 7.11% to 4.50%.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0726111-124954 |
| Date | 26 July 2011 |
| Creators | Chuang, Yun-Ta |
| Contributors | Jing-Huei Perng, Michael Y. Chiang, Tsu-hsin Chang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0726111-124954 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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