Abstract—Dye-Sensitized solar cell is one of the newest ways to exploit the solar energy to convert it into electricity. It is composed of a few structures to function such as the electrodes, conducting layer, dye and electrolyte. Titanium dioxide is one of the most used substances to make conducting layer in dye-sensitized solar cell. There are many methods employed to create titanium dioxide coating such as spin-coating and electrophoresis. In this paper, we investigate the effect of electrophoresis temperature on the formation of the thickness of titanium dioxide layer thus linking the temperature effect to the solar cell energy conversion rate. The result is higher temperature resulted in more even titanium dioxide layer, with the solution boiling point as the temperature limit. From the experiments that we have conducted, it can be said that electrophoresis temperature affect the stability of titanium dioxide thin film thickness.

 

Index Terms—electrophoresis, temperature, titanium dioxide, dye-sensitized solar cell

Cite: N. E. Lydia M. Safri, Kanta Sugii, and Kozo Taguchi, "Electrophoresis Temperature Effect on the TiO₂ Thickness of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell," International Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 130-133, April 2016. doi: 10.18178/ijeee.4.2.130-133