Abstract
Herein, we report the low-temperature hydrothermal synthesis, characterization and dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) application of ZnO nanoparticles. The synthesized nanoparticles were examined using several approaches so as to examine the crystal, structural, compositional morphological and optical characteristics. The morphological studies revealed the high-density growth while the crystal and structural investigations confirmed the high crystallinity and wurtzite crystal structure type for the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles. The synthesized nanoparticles were used as efficient photoanode material for DSSC which exhibited good conversion efficiency (eta) from light to electricity of 3.2%, open circuit voltage (V-OC) of 0.663 V, short-circuit current density (J(SC)) of 8.41 mA/cm(2) and fill factor (FF) of 0.57%. The presented work demonstrates those simply prepared ZnO nanoparticles may be utilized as efficient photoanode in DSSC applications.