Dresden 2011 – scientific programme

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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 42: Poster I: Progress in Micro- and Nanopatterning: Techniques and Applications (jointly with O); Spins in Organic Materials; Ion Interactions with Nano Scale Materials; Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics; Plasmonics and Nanophotonics (jointly with HL and O); High-k and Low-k Dielectrics (jointly with DF); Organic Thin Films; Nanoengineered Thin Films; Layer Deposition Processes; Layer Properties: Electrical, Optical, and Mechanical Properties; Thin Film Characterisation: Structure Analysis and Composition; Application of Thin Films

DS 42.60: Poster

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 15:00–17:30, P1

Mesostructured zinc oxide as basis material for dye-sensitized solar cells — •Christoph Richter¹, Michael Schröder², Bernd Smarsly², and Derck Schlettwein¹ — ¹Institute of Applied Physics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany. email:schlettwein@uni-giessen.de — ²Institute of Physical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Polysterene (PS) spheres of a narrow size distribution were synthesized by mini-emulsion polymerization. Films (1 - 10 µm) of densely packed PS spheres were prepared from suspensions of the spheres on fluorine-doped tin oxide films on a carrier substrate. Macroporous ZnO films were electrodeposited into the free space between the polystyrene spheres. The PS template was removed by solvent or UV treatment leaving behind the macroporous ZnO matrix. In a subsequent deposition step, additional ZnO was electrodeposited into the macropores this time, however, using a molecular template and hence forming mesoporous ZnO filling the space which ad been occupied by the PS spheres before. The films were characterized and their applicability as hierarchical structures in dye-sensitized solar cells will be discussed.