Low-Cost Electricity Production from Sunlight: Third-Generation Photovoltaics and the Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

2016 ◽  
pp. 93-153
Author(s):  
Nadia Barbero ◽  
Frédéric Sauvage
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Third Generation Photovoltaics

Amorphous carbon as a flexible counter electrode for low cost and efficient dye sensitized solar cell

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 383-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganapathy Veerappan ◽  
Karunagaran Bojan ◽  
Shi-Woo Rhee
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Amorphous Carbon ◽  
Counter Electrode ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Dye Sensitized

Low-cost dye-sensitized solar cell based on nine kinds of carbon counter electrodes

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 2308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingxing Wu ◽  
Xiao Lin ◽  
Tonghua Wang ◽  
Jieshan Qiu ◽  
Tingli Ma
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Counter Electrodes ◽  
Dye Sensitized

Development of a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell with a Carbon Counter Electrode Formed by Screen-Printing

2011 ◽  
Vol 485 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Tatsunori Kakuda ◽  
Takashi Terasawa ◽  
Tomoaki Futakuchi
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Screen Printing ◽  
Counter Electrode ◽  
Carbon Nanofiber ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Carbon Electrodes ◽  
Carbon Electrode ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Screen Printed Carbon Electrode

In this study, we attempted to develop a low-cost dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) by substituting a screen-printed carbon electrode for the conventional platinum counter electrode. Carbon electrodes were formed from mixtures of activated carbon, carbon nanofiber, carbon black, and a resin. The best carbon electrode conversion efficiency obtained was approximately 90% that of a platinum-based electrode.

Synthesis of TiO2-rGO Nanocomposite and its Application as Photoanode of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1028 ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Ayunita Chintia Celline ◽  
Astria Yuliani Subagja ◽  
Sri Suryaningsih ◽  
Annisa Aprilia ◽  
Lusi Safriani
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Reduced Graphene ◽  
Ft Ir ◽  
Sensitized Solar Cells

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are solar cells that has a great potential to be applied as renewable energy conversion. The major advantages of DSSC are the ease of fabrication process and low cost of production. Despite of these advantages, the efficiency of DSSC for converting light into electricity is still low. It is due to charge recombination in DSSC which limits the photoanode performance. Numerous efforts has been carried out to increase the efficiency of DSSC, one of which is by adding reduced graphene oxide (rGO) to titanium oxide (TiO2) to obtain TiO2-rGO nanocomposite. In this study, the synthesis of TiO2-rGO nanocomposites was carried out with concentration of rGO are 0.6, 0.8, and 1.0 wt% to amount of TiO2. We have done some characterizations to confirm the result of synthesized TiO2-rGO. UV-Vis measurement shows the addition of rGO has widened the absorption up to 400 nm. The FT-IR spectrum confirms that the rGO peaks appears at wavelength of 1400, 1600, dan 1700 cm-1 which exhibited the vibration C-O, C=C, and C=O stretching from COOH groups, respectively. The highest efficiency of DSSC with photoanode TiO2-rGO nanocomposite is 0.09% which was obtained from 0.8 wt% of rGO.

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