Highly conductive and low cost Ni-PET flexible substrate for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Haijun Su; Mingyang Zhang; Ya Huei Chang; Peng Zhai; Nga Yu Hau; Yu Ting Huang; Chang Liu; Ai Kah Soh; Shien Ping Feng

doi:10.1021/am406026n

Highly conductive and low cost Ni-PET flexible substrate for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Haijun Su, Mingyang Zhang, Ya Huei Chang, Peng Zhai, Nga Yu Hau, Yu Ting Huang, Chang Liu, Ai Kah Soh, Shien Ping Feng

School of Materials Sience and Engineering

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Abstract

The highly conductive and flexible nickel-polyethylene terephthalate (Ni-PET) substrate was prepared by a facile way including electrodeposition and hot-press transferring. The effectiveness was demonstrated in the counter electrode of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The Ni film electrodeposition mechanism, microstructure, and DSSC performance for the Ni-PET flexible substrate were investigated. The uniform and continuous Ni film was first fabricated by electroplating metallic Ni on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) and then intactly transferred onto PET via hot-pressing using Surlyn as the joint adhesive. The obtained flexible Ni-PET substrate shows low sheet resistance of 0.18Ω and good chemical stability for the I^-/I^3- electrolyte. A high light-to-electric energy conversion efficiency of 7.89% was demonstrated in DSSCs system based on this flexible electrode substrate due to its high conductivity, which presents an improvement of 10.4% as compared with the general ITO-PEN flexible substrate. This method paves a facile and cost-effective way to manufacture various metals on a plastic nonconducive substrate beneficial for the devices toward flexible and rollable.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5577-5584
Number of pages	8
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	6
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/am406026n
State	Published - 23 Apr 2014

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conductive
counter electrode
dye-sensitized solar cell
electrodeposition
flexible substrate
photovoltaic

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