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Synthesis and fabrication of Mg-doped ZnO-based dye-synthesized solar cells

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Undoped and 2, 4 and 6 at.% Mg-doped ZnO nanorods were successfully deposited on ZnO seeded fluorine tin oxide substrates by a simple chemical bath deposition technique to form a photoanode. It was seen that all the samples had a hexagonal wurtzite structure with compact rod morphology. From Tauc’s plot results, as compared to the undoped one (3.26 eV), the optical band gap of the ZnO:Mg samples increased to 3.32 eV for 4 at.% Mg-doping concentration and then decreased to 3.27 eV for 6 at.% Mg-doping. Photoluminescence results measured at 300 K indicated that ZnO nanorods had a ultra-violet peak with a wavelength of 382 nm, a blue peak at 420 nm and a deep level band in the range of 450–800 nm. Undoped and Mg-doped ZnO nanorods were subsequently used to realize ZnO-based dye-synthesized solar cells which exhibited the best power conversion efficiency of 0.144 % for 4 at.% ZnO:Mg sample.

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  1. Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Karadeniz Technical University, 61830, Trabzon, Turkey

    İ. Polat

  2. Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Adana Science and Technology University, 01180, Adana, Turkey

    S. Yılmaz

  3. Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Karadeniz Technical University, 61080, Trabzon, Turkey

    E. Bacaksız & Y. Atasoy

  4. Department of Physics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey

    M. Tomakin

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Polat, İ., Yılmaz, S., Bacaksız, E. et al. Synthesis and fabrication of Mg-doped ZnO-based dye-synthesized solar cells. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 25, 3173–3178 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-014-2000-5

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