Influence of Tin Doped TiO Nanorods on Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.

The one-step hydrothermal method was used to synthesize Sn-doped TiO (Sn-TiO) thin films, in which the variation in Sn content ranged from 0 to 7-wt % and, further, its influence on the performance of a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) photoanode was studied. The deposited samples were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy, which confirmed the existence of the rutile phase of the synthesized samples with crystallite size ranges in between 20.1 to 22.