Research Article

Development of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Sputtered N-Doped Thin Films: From Modeling the Growth Mechanism of the Films to Fabrication of the Solar Cells

Table 1

Structural properties of the films.

Deposition condition
(Oxygen flow rate)
StructureCrystal typeOxygen defects
BulkSurface

0.2 sccmAmorphousYesYes
0.6 sccmCrystallineAnataseNoYes
3.5 sccmCrystallineAnataseNoYes