Anthocyanin-sensitized solar cells using carbon nanotube films as counter electrodes
- 21 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nanotechnology
- Vol. 19 (46), 465204
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/19/46/465204
Abstract
Carbon nanotube (CNT) films have been used as counter electrodes in natural dye-sensitized (anthocyanin-sensitized) solar cells to improve the cell performance. Compared with conventional cells using natural dye electrolytes and platinum as the counter electrodes, cells with a single-walled nanotube (SWNT) film counter electrode show comparable conversion efficiency, which is attributed to the increase in short circuit current density due to the high conductivity of the SWNT film.Keywords
This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
- Inkjet Printing of Transparent, Electrically Conducting Single‐Walled Carbon‐Nanotube CompositesSmall, 2007
- Carbon nanotube films for transparent and plastic electronicsJournal of Materials Chemistry, 2006
- Organic solar cells with carbon nanotube network electrodesApplied Physics Letters, 2006
- Conducting and transparent single-wall carbon nanotube electrodes for polymer-fullerene solar cellsApplied Physics Letters, 2005
- Transparent and Flexible Carbon Nanotube TransistorsNano Letters, 2005
- Conjugated Polymer Photovoltaic CellsChemistry of Materials, 2004
- Structural and morphological investigation of Langmuir–Blodgett SWCNT/behenic acid multilayersCarbon, 2004
- Magnetically aligned single wall carbon nanotube films: Preferred orientation and anisotropic transport propertiesJournal of Applied Physics, 2003
- Formation of macroscopically ordered carbon nanotube membranes by self-assemblyPhysica B: Condensed Matter, 2002
- Composites of Carbon Nanotubes and Conjugated Polymers for Photovoltaic DevicesAdvanced Materials, 1999