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Zirconium oxide films: deposition techniques and their applications in dye-sensitized solar cells

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Zirconium oxide (ZrO2) is acquiring considerable attention of most of the research groups and leading to a large number of publications due to its unique properties, especially in the context of emerging trends in the third generation of solar cell research. ZrO2 films offer magnificent aspects related to physicochemical properties, and the properties are found to be dependent on synthesis methods. In the present review, various deposition techniques used to grow zirconium oxide thin films and their application to enhance the quantum efficiency of titanium oxide (TiO2) based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are discussed. Also, the modulated performances of DSSCs fabricated by growing the conformal ZrO2 insulating films to retard interfacial recombination dynamics on preformed TiO2 films are discussed.

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HMP is thankful to the Departmental Research Development Program, Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, and University Grants Commission, New Delhi, for partial financial support. The helpful assistance of all members of Advanced Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, and Nanostructured Thin Film Materials Laboratory, Department of Physics, Government Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities, Amravati, is gratefully acknowledged.

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Waghmare, M.A., Naushad, M., Alothman, Z.A. et al. Zirconium oxide films: deposition techniques and their applications in dye-sensitized solar cells. J Solid State Electrochem 21, 2531–2545 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-017-3565-8

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