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. 2011 Oct 13;2:681–690. doi: 10.3762/bjnano.2.73

Table 1.

J–V characteristics of bare ZnO-nanorod and ZnO/Au-nanocomposite solar cells in the absence of dye N719, measured at an illumination of 1 sun, AM 1.5 G (100 mW/cm2).a

J–V
parameters		 Bare ZnO-nanorod
solar cell		 ZnO/Au-
nanocomposite solar cell
Voc (V) 0.27 0.39
Jsc (µA/cm2) 18.80 82.46
fill factor, FF (%) 30.94 52.05
η (%) 0.002 0.017

aThe active area of all the solar cells was maintained at 0.25 cm2 during these experiments.