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Here, we report the efficiency enhancement of TiO₂/CuO/Cu/PVA.LiOH/Al solar cell by growing copper particles on the space between TiO₂ and/or CuO particles. The TiO₂/CuO film was developed by spraying process of TiO₂/CuO suspension to the Fluorin doped Tin Oxide (FTO), while copper particles were grown by fix current electroplating as our proposed method. We found the highest efficiency and fill factor was 1.62% and 0.42, respectively. This result is higher than by using fix voltage electroplating (ordinary electroplating) as we reported in a previous paper. We suspect that the presence and the optimum amount of copper particles can improve efficiency and fill factor of the solar cells because it can facilitate the transporting process of electrons to the electrode. The effect of the magnitude of the current and time of electroplating is also investigated. The highest efficiency is obtained by using electroplating …