An Investigation on Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance Influenced by Radiant Intensity and Illuminated Area in Concentrating Photovoltaic System

2014 ◽  
Vol 1070-1072 ◽  
pp. 616-619
Author(s):  
Wen Bo Xiao ◽  
Jin Dai ◽  
Guo Hua Tu ◽  
Hua Ming Wu
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Solar Cell Performance ◽  
Radiant Intensity ◽  
Dye Sensitized

The dye-sensitized solar cell performances influenced by radiant intensity and illuminated area in concentrating photovoltaic system are investigated experimentally and discussed theoretically. The results show that, under the same irradiated cells area, the short-circuit current is linearly increasing with the radiant intensity and the open-circuit voltage follows a logarithmic function of the radiant intensity. And, it is turned out that the short-circuit current and open-circuit voltage are obviously enhanced by increasing the illuminated cells surface area at the same radiant intensity. However, that growth trends will decline with an increase of the illuminated area. The reason is more defects involved in the process of increasing illumination area. All results can be interpreted using an equivalent circuit of a single diode model. A good agreement can be observed from the fitting curves. It is of great significance for current photovoltaic research.

scholarly journals Magnetron Sputtered Electron Blocking Layer as an Efficient Method to Improve Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2690
Author(s):  
Dariusz Augustowski ◽  
Paweł Kwaśnicki ◽  
Justyna Dziedzic ◽  
Jakub Rysz
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Blocking Layer ◽  
Electron Blocking Layer ◽  
Solar Cell Performance ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Dye Sensitized

The main efficiency loss is caused by an intensive recombination process at the interface of fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) and electrolyte in dye-sensitized solar cells. Electrons from the photoanode can be injected back to the redox electrolyte and, thus, can reduce the short circuit current. To avoid this, the effect of the electron blocking layer (EBL) was studied. An additional thin film of magnetron sputtered TiO2 was deposited directly onto the FTO glass. The obtained EBL was characterized by atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, optical profilometry, energy dispersive spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometry. The results of the current–voltage characteristics showed that both the short circuit current (Isc) and fill factor (FF) increased. Compared to traditional dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) architecture, the power conversion efficiency (η) increased from 4.67% to 6.07% for samples with a 7 × 7 mm2 active area and from 2.62% to 3.06% for those with an area of 7 × 80 mm2.

Characteristics of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Dye from Pitaya Fruit

2015 ◽  
Vol 793 ◽  
pp. 450-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Gomesh ◽  
R. Syafinar ◽  
Muhamad Irwanto ◽  
Y.M. Irwan ◽  
M. Fareq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Liquid Electrolyte ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Photoelectrochemical Performance ◽  
Cell Efficiency ◽  
Dye Sensitized

Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) consists of TiO2 nanoporous coating which acts as a photo electrode, a sensitizer of dye molecules soaked in the TiO2 film, liquid electrolyte and a counter electrode. This paper focuses on the usage of a sensitizer from the Pitaya fruit. Pitaya or commonly known as dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) was extracted and used as a sensitizer to fabricate the dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC). The photoelectrochemical performance of Pitaya based solar cell shows an open circuit voltage (VOC) of 237 mV, short circuit current (ISC) of 4.98 mA, fill factor (FF) of 0.51, solar cell efficiency (η) of 0.70 % and has a peak absorbance rate of 2.7 at 550 nm. The photoelectrochemical and UV-Visible light absorbance performance of Pitaya-DSSC shows good potential in future solar cell fabrication.

In Situ Quaternized Gel Electrolyte for Quasi-Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

2011 ◽  
Vol 415-417 ◽  
pp. 1586-1589
Author(s):  
Yu Hua Dai ◽  
Xiao Lei Sun ◽  
Jing Lian Wang ◽  
Ming Shan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Fill Factor ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Liquid Electrolyte ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Gel Electrolyte ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Dye Sensitized

A series of copolymers P(VP-HEMA) composed of hydroxyl ethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and 4-vinyl pyridine (VP) were prepared by a solution copolymerization technique. Based on the copolymer P(VP-HEMA) prepared by the content of VP 50%, the amount of AIBN 3% and the optimized liquid electrolyte, a polymer solution electrolyte with concentration of 9.0% was formed. By addition of 1,4-dibromobutane into the solution, the copolymer gel electrolyte with higher conductivity 6.14mS/cm was prepared. Gelation is caused by the quaterisation between the group of pyridine in P(HEMA-VP) and 1,4-dibromobutane. Based on the copolymer gel electrolyte, a dye-sensitized solar cell was fabricated with short-circuit current of 13.62mA/cm2,open circuit voltage of 0.72V, fill factor of 0.5465 and an overall conversion efficiency of 5.24% under irradiation 100mW/cm2(AM1.5).

scholarly journals Efficiency enhancement of natural dye sensitized solar cell by optimizing electrode fabrication parameters

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Khalid Hossain ◽  
M.F. Pervez ◽  
S. Tayyaba ◽  
M. Jalal Uddin ◽  
A.A. Mortuza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Counter Electrode ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Short Circuit Current Density ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Cell Efficiency ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Candle Flame

Abstract Efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) depends on several interrelated factors such as type and concentration of dye, type and thickness of photoelectrode and counter electrode. Optimized combination of these factors leads to a more efficient cell. This paper presents the effect of these parameters on cell efficiency. TiO2 nanoporous thin films of different thicknesses (5 μm to 25 μm) were fabricated on indium doped tin oxide (ITO) coated glass by doctor blading method and characterized by inverted microscope, stylus surface profiler and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Natural organic dye of different concentrations, extracted from turmeric, was prepared with ethanol solvent. Different combinations of dye concentrations and film thicknesses along with different types of carbon catalyst have been investigated by I-V characterization. The result shows that the cell made of a counter electrode catalyst material prepared by candle flame carbon combined with about 15 μm thick photoelectrode and 100 mg/mL dye in ethanol solvent, achieves the highest efficiency of 0.45 %, with open circuit voltage of 566 mV and short circuit current density of 1.02 mA/cm2.

scholarly journals The Effect of Annealing Time on TiO2–Based Dye Sensitized Solar Cell: Natural Pigment

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafeez Yusuf Hafeez ◽  
Bala Ismail Adam
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Annealing Time ◽  
Fill Factor ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Energy Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Short Circuit Current Density ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Dye Sensitized

In this analytical approach we fabricate and characterized a Titanium Dioxide Dye sensitized solar cell using Doctor-Blade Technique. The samples were given annealing treatment at various time of 20, 30 and 40 minutes respectivelyat constant annealing temperature of 450oC. The device under test (DUT) were tested using a Kiethley 2400, source meter under A.M 1.5 (1000W/m2) illumination from a Newport class A solar simulator.The results shows that at the miscellaneous annealing time, the open circuit voltagesVoc= 0.28V, 0.30V and 0.29V, the short circuit current density Jsc=95.5µAcm-2 , 104.1µAcm-2and 105µAcm-2, the fill factor FF= 0.411, 0.448 and 0.525 and the energy conversion efficiency, η = 0.011, 0.014 and 0.016 respectively.With best results of open circuit voltage Voc=0.30, short circuit current density Jsc= 105mAcm-2, fill factor FF= 0.525 and energy conversion efficiency η= 0.016 was achieved.It was observed that the power density, Fill Factor and efficiency increases with increasewith increase in annealing time.

scholarly journals The Effect of Gel-Electrolyte on Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) Prototype based on Nanosized-TiO2 Using Mangosteen Pericarp as Absorber

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Biaunik Niski Kumila ◽  
Gontjang Prajitno
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Gel Electrolyte ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Precipitation Method ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Near Ultraviolet ◽  
Co Precipitation

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) with Fluorine deped Tin Oxide (FTO) substrat and nanosize-TiO2 layer sensitized by “dye” ,mangosteen pericarp extract, was succesfully fabricated. Gel-Electrolyte as electron regenerator was synthesized by adding Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) 1000 to electrolyte solution while nanosize-TiO2 was synthesized by co-precipitation method from TiCl3 solution. The crystal size of TiO2 characterized by X-Ray Diffraction is 10.5 nm in size. The solar absorbance of “dye” mangosteen pericarp was measured using UV-Vis Spectrophotometer and it showed that the dye can absorb photon at Near Ultraviolet (NUV) to yellow visible light. Nanosize-TiO2 based DSSC with gel-electrolyte successfully reached short circuit current up to 30.9 μA, open circuit voltage 398.3 mV and performed the long term stability. ©2017 JNSMR UIN Walisongo. All rights reserved</p>

scholarly journals Fabrication and Characterization of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell using Chemically Grown ZnS Nanoparticles

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Bera ◽  
Satyajit Saha ◽  
Paresh Chandra Jana
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Light Condition ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Morphological Properties ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Zns Nanoparticles ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Acalypha Wilkesiana

In this work, we have fabricated dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) based on chemically grown ZnS nanoparticles with three different source of dye namely Gerbera jamesonii, Rosa indica and Acalypha wilkesiana leaves extract. Anthocyanin, a kind of natural dye found in the leaves of plants and flowers was used as photosensitizers in preparing dye-sensitized solar cell. The optical properties of anthocyanin present in three dyes were also studied. Morphological properties have been studied by atomic force microscopy on ZnS film as well as on ZnS film with dye. The current-voltage characteristics of the dye-sensitized solar cell had been studied in light condition. The DSSC is characterized by the measurement of open circuit voltage, short circuit current density; efficiency and fill factor. The efficiency of three dye solar cell is different and it is maximum for Acalypha wilkesiana leaves extract dye.

Studies of a supramolecular photoelectrochemical cell using magnesium tetraphenylporphyrin as photosensitizer

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (08n09) ◽  
pp. 733-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navaneetha K. Subbaiyan ◽  
Francis D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Electrochemical Impedance ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Photoelectrochemical Cell ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Dye Sensitized

Magnesium tetrapyrrole, the natural choice of metal tetrapyrrole in photosynthesis, as a photosensitizer in dye sensitized solar cell applications is performed by constructing solar cells using metal-ligand axial coordination approach on TiO 2 surface modified with 4-carboxyphenyl imidazole and compared with cells constructed using traditionally used zinc porphyrin as sensitizer. Studies involving optical absorption, steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence, and differential pulse voltammetry, suggested that the employed magnesium tetraphenylporphyrin (MgTPP) to be a better photosentizer compared to zinc tetraphenylporphyrin (ZnTPP) for dye sensitized solar cell applications under the employed self-assembly conditions. Consequently, the constructed solar cells using MgTPP outperformed the cells constructed using ZnTPP in all aspects. That is, the open circuit potential, short circuit current, fill-factor, incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency, and overall efficiency of the solar cell were found to be better for the cells built using MgTPP photosensitizer. In order to further improve the performance of the solar cells, efforts were made to increase the fill-facotor by adding polar acetonitrile to the mediator solvent media made out of dichlorobenzene. Moderate additions of acetonitrile improved the performance of the solar cells. However, the performance of DSSC constructed using pure acetonitrile was poor due to acetonitrile competatively binding to MgTPP instead of imidazolde on the TiO 2 surface. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy studies suggested that the significant decrease in the resistance at platinum electrolyte interface facilitating better iodide/iodine mediation and dye regeneration are main contributing factors for this improved cell performance.

RETRACTED: Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of the Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using Natural Dyes with Surface Modification of the Photoanode

2013 ◽  
Vol 771 ◽  
pp. 159-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Jinchu ◽  
A. Bharatkumar Sharma ◽  
C.O. Sreekala ◽  
K.S. Sreelatha ◽  
K. Achuthan
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cell ◽  
Fill Factor ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Dye Adsorption ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Energy Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ◽  
Dye Sensitized

The efficiency of the best Dye sensitized solar cell is primarily depends on the good light harvesting property of the photo anode. Present study uses Lawsone (2 hydroxy [1, -naphthoquinone), the natural dye and compare the performance of photo anode in bare TiO2 and with nanoporous CaCO3 coated TiO2. As compared to bare TiO2, the surface area of nanoporous CaCO3-coated TiO2 increases, consequently, a better amount of dye adsorption occurs. The coating of CaCO3 increases the impedance at TiO2/dye/electrolyte interface and affect lifetime of the photoelectrons. Due to this reasons the short circuit current Jsc, open-circuit voltage (Voc), and fill factor (FF) increases. Thereby, the energy conversion efficiency of the solar cell is improved.

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