A facile low temperature route to deposit a TiO<inf>2</inf> scattering layer for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Hydrolysis of TiCl4 at low temperature formed an efficient scattering layer in dye-sensitized solar cell architecture, which leads to an improvement in the light harvesting and a remarkable reduction of electronic disorder of mesoporous-TiO2.Nava Technology Limited, Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council, Nyak Technology Limited, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Royal Society of Chemistry via http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6RA13273