Title

Engineering Three-Dimensional Micromirror Arrays By Fiber-Drawing Nanomanufacturing For Solar Energy Conversion

Abstract

Three-dimensional micrometer arrays were fabricated by fiber-drawing nanomanufacturing (FDN) for solar energy conversion. A particle suspension was made by incrementally adding 20 mL of water to 12g of colloidal TiO2 powder. The suspension was coated on the tin oxide film by spin coating and then dried and sintered in a furnace at 450 °C for 0.5h. The counter electrode was made by coating a carbon thin film on a conductive indium tin oxide (ITO) coated flat glass. The thin carbon film could serve as a catalyst for the oxidation of ions in an electrolyte. The measurement was performed by using two digital multimeters under a 75W incandesce lamp at a distance of 10 cm. The efficiency curve was obtained by changing the external load applied on the solar cell. It was found that as much energy from the lamp was dissipated as heat energy, effective efficiency could not be derived out of the solar cell.

Publication Date

10-2-2008

Publication Title

Advanced Materials

Volume

20

Issue

19

Number of Pages

3734-3738

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200703001

Socpus ID

54949113243 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/54949113243

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