TY - JOUR
AU1 - Rajkumar, C
AU2 - Arulraj, Arunachalam
AB - A zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticle has been synthesized using seed mediated method at a low temperature of 90 °C. To understand its optical, structural and morphological properties of as-synthesized ZnO, it was characterized using various analytical techniques. The obtained result reveals that ZnO nanoparticles possess hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure with an average crystallite size of ∼40 nm. The presence of hydroxyl, amine and alkyl groups was confirmed from Fourier transform infrared analysis. Furthermore, the synthesized ZnO powder has employed as photoanode for the fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells using Doctor-blade technique. To evaluate its photo-conversion efficiency, the device has been assembled into a cell module and illuminated with the light intensity of 100 mW cm−2. The device exhibits the photo-conversion efficiency of 1.85% with the current density of 4.532 mA cm−2 and voltage of 0.61 V.
TI - Seed mediated synthesis of nanosized zinc oxide and its electron transporting activity in dye-sensitized solar cells
JF - Materials Research Express
DO - 10.1088/2053-1591/aaa2b3
DA - 2018-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/iop-publishing/seed-mediated-synthesis-of-nanosized-zinc-oxide-and-its-electron-ZS1zffLBu1
SP - 015029
VL - 5
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -