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Title: Electrochemically grown ZnO nanorods for hybrid solar cell applications

Abstract

A hybrid solar cell is designed and proposed as a feasible and reasonable alternative, according to acquired efficiency with the employment of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods and ZnO thin films at the same time. Both of these ZnO structures were grown electrochemically and poly(3-hexylthiophene):phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester; (P3HT:PCBM) was used as an active polymer blend, which was found to be compatible to prepared indium-tin-oxide (ITO) substrate base. This ITO base was introduced with mentioned ZnO structure in such a way that, the most efficient configuration was optimized to be ITO/ZnO film/ZnO nanorod/P3HT: PCBM/Ag. Efficiency of this optimized device is found to be 2.44%. All ZnO works were carried out electrochemically, that is indeed for the first time and at relatively lower temperatures. (author)

Authors:
 [1]; ; ; ;  [2]
  1. Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Mustafa Kemal University, 31040 Hatay (Turkey)
  2. Department of Physics, Gebze Institute of Technology, 41400 Gebze (Turkey)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
21305695
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Solar Energy
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 84; Journal Issue: 3; Other Information: Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved; Journal ID: ISSN 0038-092X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; ZINC OXIDES; SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; BUTYRIC ACID; THIN FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURES; TIN OXIDES; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INDIUM; EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; CONFIGURATION; POLYMERS; SUBSTRATES; RODS; Nanorods

Citation Formats

Hames, Yakup, Alpaslan, Zuehal, Koesemen, Arif, San, Sait Eren, and Yerli, Yusuf. Electrochemically grown ZnO nanorods for hybrid solar cell applications. United States: N. p., 2010. Web. doi:10.1016/J.SOLENER.2009.12.013.
Hames, Yakup, Alpaslan, Zuehal, Koesemen, Arif, San, Sait Eren, & Yerli, Yusuf. Electrochemically grown ZnO nanorods for hybrid solar cell applications. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SOLENER.2009.12.013
Hames, Yakup, Alpaslan, Zuehal, Koesemen, Arif, San, Sait Eren, and Yerli, Yusuf. 2010. "Electrochemically grown ZnO nanorods for hybrid solar cell applications". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SOLENER.2009.12.013.
@article{osti_21305695,
title = {Electrochemically grown ZnO nanorods for hybrid solar cell applications},
author = {Hames, Yakup and Alpaslan, Zuehal and Koesemen, Arif and San, Sait Eren and Yerli, Yusuf},
abstractNote = {A hybrid solar cell is designed and proposed as a feasible and reasonable alternative, according to acquired efficiency with the employment of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods and ZnO thin films at the same time. Both of these ZnO structures were grown electrochemically and poly(3-hexylthiophene):phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester; (P3HT:PCBM) was used as an active polymer blend, which was found to be compatible to prepared indium-tin-oxide (ITO) substrate base. This ITO base was introduced with mentioned ZnO structure in such a way that, the most efficient configuration was optimized to be ITO/ZnO film/ZnO nanorod/P3HT: PCBM/Ag. Efficiency of this optimized device is found to be 2.44%. All ZnO works were carried out electrochemically, that is indeed for the first time and at relatively lower temperatures. (author)},
doi = {10.1016/J.SOLENER.2009.12.013},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21305695}, journal = {Solar Energy},
issn = {0038-092X},
number = 3,
volume = 84,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
month = {Mon Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010}
}