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Structural features and dye-sensitized solar cell performance of chemically synthesized F doped ZnO particles

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In dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) application, the particulate morphologies of photo-anode facilitate efficient dye loading and thus lead to better photo-conversion efficiency than their thin film counterpart. However, till date, the electronic and optical properties as well as the DSSC application of F doped ZnO (FZO) particles as photo-anode material is hardly found in the open literature. Herein, crystalline nature, morphology evolution, optical properties and dye-sensitized solar cell performance of wet chemically prepared ZnO and FZO (dopant level 1–4 mol%) particles are studied. It is found that F doping modulates significantly the ZnO morphology which in turn results the maximum dye adsorption as well as best photo-conversion efficiency at optimum dopant concentration. In particular, when 3 mol% F is doped in ZnO, the photo-conversion efficiency for DSSC application reaches maximum. An attempt is made here to correlate the structural features with the photo-voltaic performances of ZnO and FZO.

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The authors would like to express their gratitude to Director, CSIR-CMERI, for his kind permission to publish the paper. The support and help provided by the scientific and technical staffs of Centre for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP), CSIR-CMERI, are honestly acknowledged. The authors would like to thank Dr. Priyabrata Banerjee, Scientist, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, India, for providing the PL facilities to characterize the samples. Mr. D. Sengupta is thankful to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, for providing his research fellowship. Dr. K. Mukherjee wishes to acknowledge Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for providing him Inspire Faculty fellowship (Ref. DST/ IFA12-CH-43).

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Sengupta, D., Mondal, B. & Mukherjee, K. Structural features and dye-sensitized solar cell performance of chemically synthesized F doped ZnO particles. J Solid State Electrochem 22, 227–235 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-017-3743-8

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