Transparent and colorless solar cells are attractive new photovoltaic devices as they could bring opportunities to harness sunlight energy particularly for their integration in windows. In this work, a zinc phthalocyanine was synthesized investigated sensitizer dye-sensitized cell (DSSC) purpose. The features benzoic acid anchoring group six thio(4-tertbutylphenyl) substituents α position of th...

The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) has been on the market as a permanent power source for indoor IoT edge devices. In recent years, illumination technology experiencing drastic transition from incandescent and fluorescent lamps toward solid-state lighting devices with light-emitting diodes (LEDs). addition to high efficiency, virtue of LEDs is their prompt response, which enables precise chan...

In the current study, pure TiO2 and Cr-doped TiO2 (Cr@TiO2) nanoparticles were synthesized via sol-gel method and the resulting materials were applied to prepare the porous TiO2 electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). It is hypothesized that the advantages of the doping of the metal ions into TiO2 lattice are the temporary rapping of the photogenerated electron-hole (charge carriers)...

The counter electrode (CE) containing catalyst layer and transparent conducting oxide (TCO) is by far the most expensive components in Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) due to use of rare earth element such as Pt. potential replacement both TCO Pt-based would essentially pave way mass commercialization technology DSSC. In this investigation, an attempt has been made replace Pt with a single del...

Nanomaterials play important role in performance of dye-sensitized solar cells. In this paper, highly phase pure anatase TiO2 microspheres were synthesized using a low-cost hydrothermal route. Initially, X-ray diffraction studies and Raman spectroscopic analysis carried out, the formation tetragonal structure with was confirmed. The UV–Vis DRS showed excellent reflectance optical band-gap energ...

In recent years, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on nanocrystalline mesoporous TiO2 films have attracted much attention as a potential low-cost alternative to single or polycrystalline p–n junction silicon solar cells. DSSCs can reach electrical energy conversion efficiencies ≈12% [154, 284]. The traditional mesoporous TiO2 electrode composed of the TiO2 nanoparticles offer insufficien...

BACKGROUND Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have garnered a lot of attention in recent years. The solar energy to power conversion efficiency of a DSSC is influenced by various components of the cell such as the dye, electrolyte, electrodes and additives among others leading to varying experimental configurations. A large number of metal-based and metal-free dye sensitizers have now been repo...

CdSe quantum dots were in situ deposited on various structures of TiO2 photoanode by successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR). Various sensitized TiO2 structures were integrated as a photoanode in order to make quantum dot sensitized solar cells. High power conversion efficiency was obtained; 2.89 % (Voc=524 mV, Jsc=9.78 mA/cm2, FF=0.56) for the cells that sensitized by SILAR meth...