<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rodrigues, J.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cerqueira, A.F.R.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sousa, M.G.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Santos, N.F.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pimentel, A.b</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fortunato, E.b</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Da Cunha, A.F.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monteiro, T.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Costa, F.M.a</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Exploring the potential of laser assisted flow deposition grown ZnO for photovoltaic applications</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Materials Chemistry and Physics</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Deposition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dye-sensitized solar cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Efficiency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Electron microscopes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Electron microscopy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Energy gap</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High crystallinity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">II-VI semiconductors</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Illumination conditions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Micro/nanostructures</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morphological characterization</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nanostructured morphology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nanostructures</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Optical qualities</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photoluminescence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photoluminescence spectroscopy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photovoltaic applications</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Semiconductor lasers</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Semiconductor materials</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Solar cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wide band gap semiconductors</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">X ray diffraction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zinc oxide</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ZnO nanostructures</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84969533862&amp;doi=10.1016%2fj.matchemphys.2016.04.033&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=85ccc1237bd8261a577403a8289d0a61</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Elsevier Ltd</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">177</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">322-329</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a widely studied wide band gap semiconductor with applications in several fields, namely to enhance solar cells efficiency. Its ability to be grown in a wide variety of nanostructured morphologies, allowing the designing of the surface area architecture constitutes an important advantage over other semiconductors. Laser assisted flow deposition (LAFD) is a recently developed growth method, based on a vapour-solid mechanism, which proved to be a powerful approach in the production of ZnO micro/nanostructures with different morphologies as well as high crystallinity and optical quality. In the present work we report the use of the LAFD technique to grow functional ZnO nanostructures (nanoparticles and tetrapods) working as nano templates to improve the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) efficiency. The structural and morphological characterization of the as-grown ZnO crystals were performed by X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy, respectively, and the optical quality was assessed by photoluminescence spectroscopy. DSSCs were produced using a combination of these nanostructures, which were subsequently sensitized with N719 dye. An efficiency of ∼3% was achieved under simulated AM 1.5 illumination conditions for a dye loading time of 1 h. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cited By 1</style></notes></record></records></xml>