Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with High Thermal Resistance Clay Films as Substrates

Nobuko ONOZAWA-KOMATSUZAKI; Kazuhiro SAYAMA; Yoshinari KONISHI; Hideki SUGIHARA; Kazunori KAWASAKI; Takeo EBINA

doi:10.5796/electrochemistry.79.801

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Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with High Thermal Resistance Clay Films as Substrates

Nobuko ONOZAWA-KOMATSUZAKI, Kazuhiro SAYAMA, Yoshinari KONISHI, Hideki SUGIHARA, Kazunori KAWASAKI, Takeo EBINA

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Keywords: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, Clay Film, Thermal Resistance, Flexibility

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2011 Volume 79 Issue 10 Pages 801-803

DOI https://doi.org/10.5796/electrochemistry.79.801

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Dye-sensitized solar cells using two types of clay films with high thermal resistance, flexibility and gas barrier properties were prepared. These films have a microstructure of highly oriented layer-by-layer stacking of 1nm thick smectite clay crystal and are new materials as substrates for dye-sensitized solar-cell electrodes. A solar-toelectricity conversion efficiency of 1.8 % (AM 1.5 illumination) was observed with calcination procedure at 450°C.

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