Abstract

Ahmad Afifi¹, Mohammad Kazem Tabatabaei²

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojc/300118

In this paper, we synthesized ZnO nanowires in dye sensitized solar cells. The nanowires have been fabricated using fast-microwave-hydrothermal process.We verify the effects of different lengths of ZnO nanowires on efficiency and absorptionofdye sensitized solar cells. J–V curves of the fabricated ZnO nanowire-based mercurochrome-sensitized solar cellsindicated that the short-circuit current density wouldincrease with increasing the length of nanowires.We also fabricate more efficient N719-sensitized solar cellsand investigate the effect of different length of Zno nanowires on the efficiency.

Zinc Oxide; nanowire; solar cell; Dye-sensitized; efficiency

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