Electrodeposition and Low-Temperature Post-Treatment of Nanocrystalline SnO2 Films for Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

الملخص EN

SnO2 porous films were electrodeposited on Ti substrate using pulse-potential technique.

These deposited films were dealt with different post-treatments.

The effects of the post treatments were investigated through X-ray diffraction, FE-SEM, and Raman spectra.

These investigations showed that crystal nanoporous SnO2 films were obtained through low-temperature post-treatment process.

The photoelectric conversion efficiency of the SnO2 film treated with both the water vapour treatment and ultraviolet illumination was improved to be 0.35% which was comparable with the conversion efficiency of the film sintered at 550∘C.