Co-sensitized solar cells have gained more attention due to the ability of energy conversion process by absorbing photons from wide range spectrum including visible and near-infrared region. TiO2 electrodes were co-sensitized with PbS/CdS core-shell quantum dots N719 dye. PbS/CdS/N719 dye-sensitized fabricated poly(ethylene oxide) based solid polymer electrolyte consisting iodide/triiodide redo...

A vertically aligned carbon nanofiber array coated with anatase TiO(2) (CNF/TiO(2)) is an attractive possible replacement for the sintered TiO(2) nanoparticle network in the original dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) design due to the potential for improved charge transport and reduced charge recombination. Although the reported efficiency of 1.1% in these modified DSSC's is encouraging, the lim...

Photoinduced absorption (PIA) spectroscopy was used to investigate dye-sensitized electrodes and solar cells under illumination conditions comparable to sunlight. In the absence of redox electrolyte, cis-RuðdcbpyÞ2ðNCSÞ2-sensitized nanostructured TiO2 films show a long-lived photoinduced charge-separation (oxidized dye molecules/injected electrons in TiO2), with a lifetime of about 10 3 s under...

Dye-sensitized solar cells are a promising alternative to traditional inorganic semiconductor-based solar cells. Here we report an open-circuit voltage of over 1,000 mV in mesoscopic dye-sensitized solar cells incorporating a molecularly engineered cobalt complex as redox mediator. Cobalt complexes have negligible absorption in the visible region of the solar spectrum, and their redox propertie...

In this paper, extract of papaya leaves are used as a natural dye and combined by variations of solvent concentration applied on DSSC (Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell). Indonesian geographic located on the equator line occasions the magnitude of the potential to develop organic solar cells made from extracts of chlorophyll as a substitute for inorganic materials or synthetic dye on DSSC material. Dye...

Textile-structured solar cells are frequently discussed in the literature due to their prospective applications in wearable devices and in building integrated solar cells that utilize their flexibility, mechanical robustness, and aesthetic appearance, but the current approaches for textile-based solar cells-including the preparation of fibre-type solar cells woven into textiles-face several dif...

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are known as 3rd generation cells. One of the most important parameters affecting performance DSSCs is thin film thickness that forms photoanode layer. In this study, we examined how 38, 60 and 76 µm thick TiO2 films change dye-sensitized cell performance. The highest efficiency (4.73%) was seen in with 38 thickness. addition, mineralogical morphological analys...

in this study, we investigated the effect of using large tio2 nanoparticles in the matrix of small nanoparticles to improve the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (dsscs), as light scatter to increase the light harvesting. the mixed powder was deposited by electrophoretic deposition (epd) on fto (f-sno2 coated glass). it is shown that adding small quantity of larger nanoparticles can enh...

Transparent nickel doped cobalt sulfide was fabricated on a SnO2:F electrode and tested as an efficient electrocatalyst and as an alternative to the expensive platinum counter electrode. In order to investigate how this electrode could affect the electrical characteristics of a dye-sensitized solar cell, we manufactured cells with the same TiO2 photoanode sensitized with dye (N719) and employin...