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Fabrication of textured substrates for dye-sensitized solar cells using polydimethylsiloxane nanoimprint lithography

  • Na Yang , Chiemi Oka , Seiichi Hata and Junpei Sakurai EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: June 29, 2019
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Advanced Optical Technologies
From the journal Advanced Optical Technologies Volume 8 Issue 6

Abstract

We proposed a fabrication of nanoimprinted textures on a front glass/transparent conductive oxide interface for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). These textures were fabricated through polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) nanoimprint lithography on organosilsesquioxane solution. The texture structures were estimated via optical simulation. Master molds were anodic aluminum oxide templates with nano-texture (N-Tx) and micro-nano double texture (D-Tx). Meanwhile, replicate molds used a hard PDMS. Fluorine-doped tin oxide and titanium dioxide were deposited on textured glass substrates to generate electrodes for DSSCs. Unlike the DSSCs without texture, textured DSSCs realized 11.4% (N-Tx) and 10% (D-Tx) improvement in conversion efficiency.

Keywords: dye-sensitized solar cells; inner AR; polydimethylsiloxane nanoimprint lithography; textures

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This research was supported by Takahashi Industrial and Economic Research Foundation.

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Received: 2019-01-16
Accepted: 2019-06-04
Published Online: 2019-06-29
Published in Print: 2019-12-18

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Keywords for this article
dye-sensitized solar cells; inner AR; polydimethylsiloxane nanoimprint lithography; textures

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  12. Experimental SWIR gated viewing in accumulation mode
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