Light scattering of nanocrystalline TiO2 film used in dye-sensitized solar cells

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    摘要 ThispaperstudiesthelightscatteringandadsorptionofnanocrystallineTiO2porousfilmsusedindye-sensitizedsolarcellscomposedofanataseand/orrutileparticlesbyusinganopticalfour-fluxradiativetransfermodel.Theselightpropertiesarediffculttomeasuredirectlyonthefunctioningsolarcellsandtheycannotbecalculatedeasilyfromthefirst-principlecomputationalorquantitativetheoreticalevaluations.Thesesimulationresultsindicatethatthelightscatteringof1-25nmTiO2particlesisnegligible,butitiseffectiveintherangeof80and180nm.Asuitablemixtureofsmallparticles(10nmradius),whichareresultedinalargeeffectivesurface,andoflargerparticles(150nmradius),whichareeffectivelightscatterers,havethepotentialtoenhancesolarabsorptionsignificantly.Therutilecrystalshavealargerrefractiveindexandthusthelightharvestofthemixturesofsuchlargerrutileandrelativelysmallanataseparticlesisimprovedincomparisonwiththatofpureanatasefilms.Thelightabsorptionofthe10μmdouble-layeredfilmsisalsoexamined.Amaximallightabsorptionofdouble-layeredfilmisgottenwhenthethicknessofthefirstlayerof10nm-sizedanataseparticlesiscomparabletothatofthesecondlargerrutilelayer.
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    出处 《中国物理B:英文版》 2008年10期
    出版日期 2008年10月20日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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