Efficiency Enhancement of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with a Low Cost Co-Adsorbant in N719 Dye

Abstract

Contribution/ OriginalityThis study is one of very few studies which have investigated the effect of CDCA additive on ruthenium dye. The paper compares the results from existing data and shows an enhancement in the photovoltaic properties in the results section. The impedance spectroscopy included is studied for the first time for the dye with chenodeoxycholic acid.

Synthesis and application of Fe 3 O 4 @nanocellulose/TiCl as a nanofiller for high performance of quasisolid‐based dye‐sensitized solar cells

“…Figure A(a) illustrated the TiO 2 photoanode surface with 20‐nm‐sized TiO 2 particles, P1 photoanode. As it is seen in Figure A(b), the photoanode surface in which the NCs/TiCl is mixed with the TiO 2 paste (P1 + NCs/TiCl photoanode) is more uniform than that which is dispersed in TiCl 4 (P1/NCs/TiCl photoanode; Figure A(c)) and has the big holes in its structure, so that they are very useful for dye adsorption on the mesoporous structure and enhance the performance of the QS‐DSSCs compared with other manuscripts . To illustrate the porous nature of the magnetic nanocomposite GPE, scanning electron spectroscopy was carried out.…”

“…As it is seen in Figure 2A(b), the photoanode surface in which the NCs/TiCl is mixed with the TiO 2 paste (P1 + NCs/TiCl photoanode) is more uniform than that which is dispersed in TiCl 4 (P1/NCs/TiCl photoanode; Figure 2A(c)) and has the big holes in its structure, so that they are very useful for dye adsorption on the mesoporous structure and enhance the performance of the QS-DSSCs compared with other manuscripts. 56 To illustrate the porous nature of the magnetic nanocomposite GPE, scanning electron spectroscopy was carried out. The cross-sectional views of electrolyte B (a) and electrolyte D on the TiO 2 substrate (b) are shown in Figure 2B, affirming that this gel polymer has covered the TiO 2 surface completely.…”

Efficiency Enhancement in Plasmonic Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Employing High Performance TiO2 Photoanode Doped with Silver Nanoparticles

“…The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), initially reported by O'regan and Grfitzeli (1991) have attracted much interest of the scientists and researchers as next-generation alternative potential photovoltaic technology to the traditional silicon-based owing to their manufacturing ease, low price, reasonable efficiency, unique applications, design flexibility and clean source of renewable energy (Elbohy et al, 2015;Toor et al, 2016;Shah et al, 2017; A DSSC comprises of a photoanode typically a mesoporous wide band semiconducotor film deposited on a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass which is sensitized with a dye, an electrolyte consisting of redox coupled solution and a counter electrode commonly consisting of a platinum coated conductive glass substrate (Nazeeruddin et al, 2011). To make a device, the two electrodes are joined together and electrolyte is injected in between.…”