Industrial sheet metals for nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cell structures

Minna Toivola; Fredrik Ahlskog; Peter Lund

doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2006.05.002

Industrial sheet metals for nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cell structures

Minna Toivola^*, Fredrik Ahlskog, Peter Lund

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Abstract

Direct integration of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) onto industrial sheet metals has been studied. The stability of the metals, including zinc-coated and plain carbon steel, stainless steel and copper in a standard iodine electrolyte was investigated with soaking and encapsulation tests. Stainless and carbon steel showed sufficient stability and were used as the cell counter-electrodes, yielding cells with energy conversion efficiencies of 3.6% and 3.1%, respectively. A DSSC built on flexible steel substrates is a promising approach especially from the viewpoint of large-scale, cost-effective industrial manufacturing of the cells. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2881-2893
Number of pages	13
Journal	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Volume	90
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2006.05.002
Publication status	Published - 6 Nov 2006
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

dye-sensitized solar cell
metal substrate
counter-electrode
LOW-TEMPERATURE FABRICATION
CHEMICAL-VAPOR-DEPOSITION
COUNTER ELECTRODES
TIO2 LAYERS
LOW-COST
FILMS

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Industrial sheet metals for nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cell structures

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