A study of the light scattering effect depending on $TiO_2$ particle size to a dye-sensitized solar cell

염료감응형 태양전지의 $TiO_2$ 입자 크기에 따른 광분산 효과 연구

  • 손민규 (부산대학교 전자전기공학과) ;
  • 서현웅 (부산대학교 전자전기공학과) ;
  • 이경준 (부산대학교 전자전기공학과) ;
  • 장진주 (부산대학교 전자전기공학과) ;
  • 홍지태 (부산대학교 전자전기공학과) ;
  • 김희제 (부산대학교 전자전기공학과)
  • Published : 2008.10.16

Abstract

One of methods to increase the efficiency of a dye-sensitized solar cell(DSC) is the effective usage of the incident light. It can be controlled by using a light scattering layer. The light scattering effect makes that the optical path length of incident light to DSC increases. And then, the photocurrent and the efficiency is increased because of the increase of dye adsorption and the abundant amount of the light. In this study, we apply the light scattering layer to DSC by using two $TiO_2$ pastes that have different particle sizes. As a result, the photocurrent increases and the total efficiency is also increases in the case of using large-sized $TiO_2$ particle as the light scattering layer.

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