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Royal Society of Chemistry, Energy & Environmental Science, 6(4), p. 2240, 2011

DOI: 10.1039/c1ee01196k

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A novel parallel configuration of dye-sensitized solar cells with double-sided anodic nanotube arrays

Journal article published in 2011 by Lidong Sun, Sam Zhang, Xiu Wang, Xiao Wei Sun ORCID, Duen Yang Ong, Aung Ko Ko Kyaw
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Abstract

In dye-sensitized solar cells based on anodic titaniananotube arrays, the low photocurrent in the backside-illuminated configuration has hindered their development. To increase the energy absorption and thus promote the photocurrent, a novel parallel configuration of dye-sensitized solar cells is proposed and achieved in this work on the basis of double-sided anodic nanotubes. The parallel connection is verified by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements. The parallel cells exhibit an average 70% increment in photocurrent and 30% enhancement in efficiency as compared to the single cells, due to significantly increased surface area and highly reduced series resistance. Theoretical calculation and experimental fitting results demonstrate that a tube length of 30 μm is optimal for the nanotubes used in this study with backside-illuminated architecture.