[20p-P7-1~20] 9.2 Nanowires and Nanoparticles

▲ [20p-P7-14] Application of Self-standing Conductive Silica-ITO Nanofiber Mat to Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

〇(D)Muhammad Zobayer BinMukhlish¹, Kousei Higashi¹, Yuji Horie¹, Teruaki Nomiyama¹ (1.Kagoshima Univ.)

Keywords:nanowire,electrospinning,dye sensitized solar cell

Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) represent an attractive photovoltaic technology, and initially developed on glass substrates. The low-cost, lightweight, and flexible plastic substrates have been investigated for the fabrication of DSSC electrodes. A major challenge for making DSSCs on flexible plastic substrates is the temperature limitation in producing working electrode, since the electrode consists of TiO₂ based materials, which need high temperature calcination at around 450 C. In the present work, self-standing, mechanically flexible nanofiber mat of silica suitable for application in DSSC as thermally stable lightweight substrate has been prepared by the electrospinning method, and covered by a conductive layer of ITO.