How Reproducible are Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopic Data for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells?
Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, BPR 1096, Mattenstrasse 24a, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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Materials 2020, 13(7), 1547; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071547
Received: 10 March 2020
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Revised: 20 March 2020
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Accepted: 26 March 2020
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Published: 27 March 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Materials for Photonics and Photovoltaics Applications)
Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) technology has been broadly investigated over the past few decades. The sandwich-type structure of the DSC makes the manufacturing undemanding under laboratory conditions but results in the need for reproducible measurements for acceptable DSC characterization. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) offers the possibility to study complex electronic systems and is commonly used for solar cells. There is a tendency in the literature to present impedance data only for one representative device. At the same time, as current density–voltage plots illustrate, measurements can vary within one set of DSCs with identical components. We present multiple DSC impedance measurements on “identical” devices prepared using two different dyes and present a statistical analysis regarding the reproducibility.
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electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; dye-sensitized solar cells; dye; statistical analysis
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Becker, M.; Bertrams, M.-S.; Constable, E.C.; Housecroft, C.E. How Reproducible are Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopic Data for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells? Materials 2020, 13, 1547. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071547
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Becker M, Bertrams M-S, Constable EC, Housecroft CE. How Reproducible are Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopic Data for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells? Materials. 2020; 13(7):1547. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071547
Chicago/Turabian StyleBecker, Mariia, Maria-Sophie Bertrams, Edwin C. Constable, and Catherine E. Housecroft. 2020. "How Reproducible are Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopic Data for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells?" Materials 13, no. 7: 1547. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071547
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