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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 536810, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/536810 Research Article Electrodeposition and Low-Temperature Post-Treatment of Nanocrystalline SnO2 Films for Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Shengjun Li, Yongjun Li, Zeng Chen, Junhui Liu, and Weifeng Zhang Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Materials of Henan Province and School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China Correspondence should be addressed to Weifeng Zhang, wfzhang@126.com Received 1 November 2011; Accepted 28 December 2011 Academic Editor: Anukorn Phuruangrat Copyright © 2012 Shengjun Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. SnO2 porous films were electrodeposited on Ti substrate using pulse-potential technique. These deposited films were dealt with different post-treatments. The effects of the post treatments were investigated through X-ray diffraction, FE-SEM, and Raman spectra. These investigations showed that crystal nanoporous SnO2 films were obtained through low-temperature post-treatment process. The photoelectric conversion efficiency of the SnO2 film treated with both the water vapour treatment and ultraviolet illumination was improved to be 0.35% which was comparable with the conversion efficiency of the film sintered at 550◦C. 1. Introduction ZrO2 , have been successfully electrodeposited [7– 10]. Dur- ing the electrodeposition process, the electrons keep flowing Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have attracted great scien-