Enhancement in Photovoltaic Parameters of a Dye Sensitized Solar Cell by Surface Plasmon Resonance of Metallic Silver Nanoparticles

Evaluation of Avocado Peels Dye as Sensitizer in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Experiment and Computational Intelligence

“…Current-voltage responses were determined at open circuit and short circuit conditions at one sun illumination (AM 1.5 G, 100 mWcm -2 ) using a Keithley 2,400 source measurement unit at room temperature in the presence of sunlight [19].…”

Silver Nanoparticles as Artificial Antennas for Enhanced Light-Harvesting and Charge Transfer in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

“…Dip coating method was used to synthesize the silver nanoparticles on the glass slide following the method previously demonstrated by Eli et.al [29,30].…”

“…8, the open-circuit voltage (Voc) of plasmonenhanced DSSCs and TiO 2 -only DSSC are almost the same, while the short-circuit current density (Jsc) significantly increased by introducing Ag@SiO 2 NPs. The improvement of Jsc in the plasmon enhanced DSSCs was mainly caused by the increase of photocurrent due to the enhanced light absorption of dye with the help of localized surface plasmons (LSPs) [23][24][25][29][30][31].…”

“…Introduction of metallic nanoparticles (NPs) in suitable places to trap or confine light inside the active layer and enhance the absorption in the organic semiconductor film could provide superior performances [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. One of the important issues in plasmonic DSSCs is the stability of the NPs [31].…”

Chlorophyll and Betalain as Light-Harvesting Pigments for Nanostructured TiO<sub>2</sub> Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

“…The use of natural dyes have been considered as potential alternatives to the expensive synthetic dyes in enhancing the light response of semiconductor in active layers of solar cells, and have been demonstrated on several solar-cell materials [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”