A review on ZnO: Fundamental properties and applications

DK Sharma, S Shukla, KK Sharma, V Kumar - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the semiconductor metal oxides, some semiconductor structures are identified for
their unique and vast potential applications in optoelectronic, field effect transistors, solar …

One‐dimensional metal‐oxide nanostructures: recent developments in synthesis, characterization, and applications

RS Devan, RA Patil, JH Lin… - Advanced Functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 1D metal‐oxide nanostructures have attracted much attention because metal
oxides are the most fascinating functional materials. The 1D morphologies can easily …

Nanoforest of hydrothermally grown hierarchical ZnO nanowires for a high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cell

SH Ko, D Lee, HW Kang, KH Nam, JY Yeo, SJ Hong… - Nano …, 2011 - ACS Publications
In this paper, in order to increase the power conversion efficiency we demonstrated the
selective growth of “nanoforest” composed of high density, long branched “treelike” …

Effects of doping, morphology and film-thickness of photo-anode materials for dye sensitized solar cell application–A review

D Sengupta, P Das, B Mondal, K Mukherjee - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2016 - Elsevier
Dye sensitized solar cells are attractive as simple and low cost renewable energy source. In
dye sensitized solar cells, photo-anode plays significant role for collection and transportation …

Solution-derived ZnO nanostructures for photoanodes of dye-sensitized solar cells

F Xu, L Sun - Energy & Environmental Science, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Solution-phase derived ZnO nanostructures have triggered considerable interest and
become the mainstream route to obtain low-cost and large-scale electrode materials for dye …

Recent progress of one-dimensional ZnO nanostructured solar cells

L Li, T Zhai, Y Bando, D Golberg - Nano Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
Abstract One-dimensional (1D) ZnO nanostructures have widely been studied over the last
decade, not only because of their rich morphologies produced by various methods, but also …

Nanostructured semiconductor materials for dye‐sensitized solar cells

C Cavallo, F Di Pascasio, A Latini… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Since O'Regan and Grätzel's first report in 1991, dye‐sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)
appeared immediately as a promising low‐cost photovoltaic technology. In fact, though …

A facile method to prepare SnO 2 nanotubes for use in efficient SnO 2–TiO 2 core–shell dye-sensitized solar cells

C Gao, X Li, B Lu, L Chen, Y Wang, F Teng, J Wang… - Nanoscale, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A high-efficiency photoelectrode for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) should combine the
advantageous features of fast electron transport, slow interfacial electron recombination and …

Iodine-doped ZnO nanocrystalline aggregates for improved dye-sensitized solar cells

YZ Zheng, X Tao, Q Hou, DT Wang, WL Zhou… - Chemistry of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A new hierarchically structured photovoltaic material, ie, I-doped ZnO nanocrystalline
aggregates (ZnO: I) was successfully prepared by the solvothermal method. The as …

Fabrication of green dye-sensitized solar cell based on ZnO nanoparticles as a photoanode and graphene quantum dots as a photo-sensitizer

G Zamiri, S Bagheri - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2018 - Elsevier
Zero-dimensional graphene quantum dots (GQDs) consist of single-or few-layer graphene
with a size less than 20 nm and stand for a new type of QDs with unique properties …