Dye-sensitized solar cells using laser processing technologies

Heungsoo Kim; Alberto Pique; Gary P. Kushto; Raymond C. Y. Auyeung; S. H. Lee; Craig B. Arnold; Zakia H. Kafafi

doi:10.1117/12.537903

15 July 2004 Dye-sensitized solar cells using laser processing techniques

Heungsoo Kim, Alberto Pique, Gary P. Kushto, Raymond C. Y. Auyeung, S. H. Lee, Craig B. Arnold, Zakia H. Kafafi

Proceedings Volume 5339, Photon Processing in Microelectronics and Photonics III; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.537903
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2004, San Jose, Ca, United States

Abstract

Laser processing techniques, such as laser direct-write (LDW) and laser sintering, have been used to deposit mesoporous nanocrystalline TiO₂ (nc-TiO₂) films for use in dye-sensitized solar cells. LDW enables the fabrication of conformal structures containing metals, ceramics, polymers and composites on rigid and flexible substrates without the use of masks or additional patterning techniques. The transferred material maintains a porous, high surface area structure that is ideally suited for dye-sensitized solar cells. In this experiment, a pulsed UV laser (355nm) is used to forward transfer a paste of commercial TiO₂ nanopowder (P25) onto transparent conducting electrodes on flexible polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) and rigid glass substrates. For the cells based on flexible PET substrates, the transferred TiO₂ layers were sintered using an in-situ laser to improve electron paths without damaging PET substrates. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of laser processing techniques to produce nc-TiO₂ films (~10 μm thickness) on glass for use in dye-sensitized solar cells (V_oc = 690 mV, J_sc = 8.7 mA/cm₂, ff = 0.67, η = 4.0 % at 100 mW/cm²). This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research.

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Heungsoo Kim, Alberto Pique, Gary P. Kushto, Raymond C. Y. Auyeung, S. H. Lee, Craig B. Arnold, and Zakia H. Kafafi "Dye-sensitized solar cells using laser processing techniques", Proc. SPIE 5339, Photon Processing in Microelectronics and Photonics III, (15 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.537903

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