Table 2.
J–V characteristics of bare ZnO-nanorod and ZnO/Au-nanocomposite DSSCs measured at 1 sun, AM 1.5 G illumination (100 mW/cm2).a
J–V parameters | Bare ZnO-nanorod DSSC | ZnO/Au-nanocomposite DSSC | |||||
cell I | cell II | cell III | cell I | cell II | cell III | ||
Voc (V) | 0.67 | 0.67 | 0.67 | 0.67 | 0.65 | 0.66 | |
Jsc (mA/cm2) | 10.98 | 11.01 | 10.84 | 14.89 | 14.28 | 14.45 | |
FF (%) | 71.55 | 72.40 | 70.31 | 65.06 | 63.00 | 65.78 | |
η (%) | 5.27 | 5.34 | 5.11 | 6.49 | 5.85 | 6.28 |
aThe active area of all the DSSCs was maintained at 0.1 cm2 during these experiments.