Screen printed tin selenide films used as the counter electrodes in dye sensitized solar cells
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Kishore Kumar, D, Popuri, SR, Swami, SK, Onuoha, OR, Bos, JW, Chen, B, Bennett, N and Upadhyaya, HM (2019). Screen printed tin selenide films used as the counter electrodes in dye sensitized solar cells. Solar Energy. 190, pp. 28-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.07.066
Authors | Kishore Kumar, D, Popuri, SR, Swami, SK, Onuoha, OR, Bos, JW, Chen, B, Bennett, N and Upadhyaya, HM |
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Abstract | © 2019 International Solar Energy Society In this work, the scalable screen printing process has been adopted to prepare low-cost and earth-abundant tin selenide (SnSe) films to study as the counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The SnSe powder was synthesized by solid state reaction method and corresponding films were fabricated by screen printing technique. The electrocatalytic activity of SnSe for redox iodide/triiodide (I−/I3−) couple and charge transfer resistance at the CE/electrolyte interface were characterized by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The DSSC with SnSe counter electrode exhibited with power conversion efficiency (PCE) of ~5.76% with open-circuit voltage of 0.63 V and short circuit current density of 12.39 mA/cm2 whereas the DSSC with platinum counter electrode showed PCE of 8.09% with open-circuit voltage of 0.68 V and short circuit current density of 14.77 mA/cm2. Thus, earth abundant and low cost SnSe films fabricated by screen printing technique could be an alternative to costly platinum counter electrode in DSSC. |
Year | 2019 |
Journal | Solar Energy |
Journal citation | 190, pp. 28-33 |
Publisher | Elsevier BV |
ISSN | 0038-092X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.07.066 |
Publication dates | |
15 Sep 2019 | |
Online | 07 Aug 2019 |
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Accepted | 24 Jul 2019 |
Deposited | 21 May 2020 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/89wyz
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