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Synthesis and characterization of flower like ZnO nanorods for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Flower like ZnO nanorods have been prepared by chemical bath deposition method. X-ray diffraction result shows that flower like ZnO nanorods exhibit hexagonal structure. Dye sensitized solar cells have been assembled by using ZnO nanorod film photoelectrode sensitized using natural dye extracted from daucus carota as sensitizer. The flower like ZnO nanorods have been used as photo-anode material to fabricate the dye sensitized solar cell which exhibited an overall light to electricity conversion efficiency of 0.78 % with a fill factor of 0.39, short-circuit current density of 3.70 mA/cm2 and open-circuit voltage of 0.26 V.

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This work was supported by the Global Frontier R&D Program on Center for Multiscale Energy System funded by the National Research Foundation under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea (2011-0031567).

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Global Frontier Center for Multiscale Energy Systems, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-744, Republic of Korea

    M. Thambidurai & Changhee Lee

  2. Department of Physics, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India

    N. Muthukumarasamy

  3. Department of Engineering, University College of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Dhayalan Velauthapillai

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Thambidurai, M., Muthukumarasamy, N., Velauthapillai, D. et al. Synthesis and characterization of flower like ZnO nanorods for dye-sensitized solar cells. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 24, 2367–2371 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-013-1103-8

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