Thermal chemical vapor deposition growth of zinc oxide nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cell fabrication

An Jen Cheng; Yonhua Tzeng; Yi Zhou; Minseo Park; Tsung Hsueh Wu; Curtis Shannon; Dake Wang; Wonwoo Lee

doi:10.1063/1.2889502

Thermal chemical vapor deposition growth of zinc oxide nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cell fabrication

An Jen Cheng, Yonhua Tzeng, Yi Zhou, Minseo Park, Tsung Hsueh Wu, Curtis Shannon, Dake Wang, Wonwoo Lee

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated using a quasialigned one-dimensional zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructure. The ZnO nanostructures were grown on indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass substrate via a thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD). It has been considered that thermal CVD is not suitable for the growth of ZnO nanostructure on ITO/glass due to the high processing temperature. However, we have demonstrated that a densely populated ZnO nanostructure can be prepared on ITO/glass substrate by a double-source double-tube CVD process. The power conversion efficiency of our device is 0.6%.

Original language	English
Article number	092113
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	92
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2889502
Publication status	Published - 2008

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Thermal chemical vapor deposition growth of zinc oxide nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cell fabrication

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