QC330 : Low Cost Nano-Structured Materials for Optimization of Solar Cells Operations Using
Thesis > Central Library of Shahrood University > Physics > MSc > 2016
Authors:
Samira Gerivani [Author], Hamid Haratizadeh[Supervisor]
Abstarct: In a wide range in solar cells and collectors, human being is in the process of doing industrial and exploratory projects, due to the imperious requirement to substitute the energy emitted from fossil fuels by renewal and new energies like solar energy. Fixed prices and the technology of establishing cells are effective parameters in selecting solar cells. That aims, therefore, to reduce the fixed price and simplicity of the applied technology in the process of establishing. Recently, thus, the pigmented cells have undergone considerable attention and the researchers are trying to obtain the mass-production of these cells by cheaper materials and simpler processes. Using polymeric pigments recently, for instance, has undergone considerable attention. This thesis aimed to reduce the cost of these cells production by the help of Nano technology and more inexpensive structures, in comparison with the existing materials applied in pigmented cells. Accordingly, Zinc oxide nano rods were used to establish dye-sensitized solar cells as photo anode. Due to the existence of various structures which can get by relatively easier ways, Zinc Oxide are more available and cheaper than TiO2. Moreover, more rapid transferring of electron and the reduction of recombination of pair electron-hole is possible due to the similarities of the band gap and the band edge of zinc oxide conduction with TiO2 Anatase phase and high sensitivity of ZnO to TiO2, but the time presence of Nano structured zinc oxide was declined in pigments environment due to the Zinc Oxide relatively weak chemical stability in pigment environment than TiO2,.Nano structured zinc oxide were chosen as a proper alternatives , due to all these features, for substituting by Titanium dioxide, and they were lionized by the pigmented solar cells researchers. This thesis has done a comparison between the photo anode stability duration of pigmented solar cells produced by Dr. Blade's relatively cheap and easy method, and zinc oxide rods in the N719 pigmented solution, and between the times effecting of re- sintering on Nano zinc oxide rods. Finally, photovoltaic parameters of established solar cells in the presence of direct sunlight under climate conditions and various times of the day in Shahrood were measured, also in the presence of solar simulator along 1.5 AM G solarization range, and their Current -voltage curve was delineated. Accordingly, established pigmented solar cell by Nano zinc oxide rods by sintering 400° C temperature and the 6 hours durability in dye, was allocated the highest efficiency of 0.68%, after 2 month of the cell production time. Moreover, some studies were conducted on the resistance reduction and transparency amplification of FTO sub-laxyer which was used as a context in DSSC. By building several FTO sub-laxyers along various precursors such as SnCl2.2H2O and SnCl4 and checking their resistance and transparency, best module was determined to use in DSSC.A comparison was done on the amount of the modules resistance and transparency, according to the similarity of both modules crystallinity. Established sub-laxyers by SnCl4 have less electric resistance than SnCl2, but the transparency of the SnCl2 module was better than. SnCl4 is the proper module, in cases where resistance is an effective parameter than transparency, for using in DSSC. And it can be used as sub-laxyers of solar cells.
Keywords:
#Dye-sensitized solar cell #Nano- structures #Zinc oxide nano rods #FTO Link
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