Antimony tin oxide porous layers improve the poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) counter electrode fabricated by vapor deposition for dye-sensitized solar cells†
Xiang Xia,Wenyi Wu,Jiahui Ma,Tingting Liu,Dehou Fei,Xizhe Liu,Chunxiao Gao
RSC Advances Pub Date : 01/27/2015 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C4RA13591A
Abstract

In this paper, we develop high performance poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) counter electrodes (CEs) by a vapor deposition method, which gives 6.09% in conversion efficiency for the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) with a thin PEDOT film CE (16 nm in thickness). To increase the quantity of PEDOT deposited on the CEs, we insert an antimony tin oxide (ATO) porous conductive supporting layer to increase the internal deposition area. The conversion efficiency of the DSSC with this PEDOT/ATO composite CE is enhanced to 7.47%.

Graphical abstract: Antimony tin oxide porous layers improve the poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) counter electrode fabricated by vapor deposition for dye-sensitized solar cells