Application of nitrogen-doped TiO2 nano-tubes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Vy Anh Tran; Trieu  Thinh Troung; Thu Anh Pham Phan; Trang Ngoc Nguyen; Tuan Van  Huynh; Antonia Agresti; Sara Pescetelli; Tien  Khoa Le; Aldo  Di Carlo; Torben Lund; So-Nhu Le; Phuong Tuyet Nguyen

doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.12.125

Application of nitrogen-doped TiO2 nano-tubes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Vy Anh Tran, Trieu Thinh Troung, Thu Anh Pham Phan, Trang Ngoc Nguyen, Tuan Van Huynh, Antonia Agresti, Sara Pescetelli, Tien Khoa Le, Aldo Di Carlo, Torben Lund, So-Nhu Le, Phuong Tuyet Nguyen

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Abstract

Our research aimed to improve the overall energy conversion efficiency of DSCs by applying nitrogen-doped TiO2 nano-tubes (N-TNT) for the preparation of DSCs photo-anodes. The none-doped TiO2 nano-tubes (TNTs) were synthesized by alkaline hydrothermal treatment of Degussa P25 TiO2 particles in 10 M NaOH. The nano-tubes were N-doped by reflux in various concentrations of NH4NO3. The effects of nitrogen doping on the structure, morphology, and crystallography of N-TNT were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), infrared spectroscopy (IR), Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS). DSCs fabricated with doped N-TNT and TNT was characterized by J-V measurements. Results showed that nitrogen doping significantly enhanced the efficiency of N-TNT cells, reaching the optimum value (η = 7.36%) with 2 M nitrogen dopant, compared to η = 4.75% of TNT cells. The high efficiency of the N-TNT cells was attributed to increased current density due to the reduction of dark current in the DSCs.

Original language	English
Journal	Applied Surface Science
Volume	399
Pages (from-to)	515-522
Number of pages	8
ISSN	0169-4332
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.12.125
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Dark current
Dye-sensitized solar cell
N-doped TiO
TiO nano-tubes
TiO surface modification

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10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.12.125

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