A Production Method of Electrically Conductive Glasses by High School Classes and a Practice of the Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Experiment

Abstract

Solar cells are getting familiar to science teachers as teaching materials in a new course of study which started in 2011. Among many types of solar cells, researchers are paying attention to the dye-sensitized solar cells experiment because students can produce by themselves. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, we cannot teach the experiment classes to produce the dye-sensitized solar cells because we cannot obtain the electrically conductive glasses. Therefore, we developed a production method of the electrically conductive glasses which high school students can perform, and practiced the dye-sensitized solar cells experiment with them. We report on the results.