Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with Low Cost Carbon Nanotubes Electrodes

Table 1

Developments of different fabrication methods of DSSCs.

Production method	Advantage	Disadvantage	Year	Reference
Aerosol depositing (Wet Route)	Performance films and mass production	High cost, high temperature, complicated processes	2011	[26]
Array-drawing (Wet Route)	High efficient cells	Small production and difficult to control	2010	[27]
Transfer printing (Dry Route)	High performance, low cost, and simple method	Limitation of film size, limitation to control the manufacturing method	2006	[28]
Dip-coating (Dry Route)	Cheap and simple method	Hard to control film thickness	2012	[29]
Spin-coating (Dry Route)	Mass production, cheap and simple method	Loss of CNTs through fabrication and creation of inhomogeneous films	2010	[30]
Spray-coating (Dry Route)	Rapid process, mass production, cheap and simple method	Creation of rude surfaces with possible aggregation of CNTs	2010	[31]
EPD (Dry Route)	Cheap, rapid, and large area films	Hard to control the film thickness and limited substrate	2008	[32]
Printing (Dry Route)	Possibility of using different substrates, simple and fast	Hard to control the film thickness	2009	[33]
Brush painting (Dry Route)	Mass production, cheap and rapid deposition	Hard to control the film thickness	2014	[34]