Review on Metallic and Plastic Flexible Dye Sensitized Solar Cell

Yugis, A. R. A.; Mansa, Rachel Fran; Sipaut, Coswald Stephen

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/78/1/012003

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“…For this reason, printed paper is rarely used as an electrode substrate for third-generation solar cells, such as the widely pursued dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) [15,16]. DSSCs are a renewable power source with strong potential owing to the fact that they do not rely on expensive or energy-intensive processing methods [17] and can be printed on flexible substrates using roll-to-roll techniques [18][19][20].…”

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“…DSSCs are a renewable power source with strong potential owing to the fact that they do not rely on expensive or energy-intensive processing methods [17] and can be printed on flexible substrates using roll-to-roll techniques [18][19][20]. Flexible DSSCs are easy to fabricate, transport, and install [15,21], making them 3 highly competitive in the photovoltaic market despite their lower efficiencies compared to inorganic-based solar devices [15,21].…”

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A paper-based electrode using a graphene dot/PEDOT:PSS composite for flexible solar cells

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A paper-based electrode using a graphene dot/PEDOT:PSS composite for flexible solar cells, Nano Energy, http://dx. AbstractWe have synthesized a metal-free composite ink that contains graphene dots (GDs) and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) that can be used on paper to serve as the counter electrode in a flexible dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). This paper-based GD/PEDOT:PSS electrode is low-cost, light-weight, flexible, environmentally friendly, and easy to cut and process for device fabrication. We determined the GD/PEDOT:PSS composite effectively fills the dense micro-pores in the paper substrate, which leads to improved carrier transport in the electrode and a 3-fold enhanced cell efficiency as compared to the paper electrode made with sputtered Pt. Moreover, the DSSC with the paper electrode featuring the GD/PEDOT:PSS composite did not fail in photovoltaic tests even after bending the electrode 150 times, whereas the device made with the Pt-based paper electrode decreased in efficiency by 45% after such manipulation. These exceptional properties make the metal-free GD/PEDOT:PSS composite ink a promising electrode material for a wide variety of flexible electronic applications.

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A paper-based electrode using a graphene dot/PEDOT:PSS composite for flexible solar cells

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“…The disadvantage of this approach is that, by using the coated fabrics as a stick-on electrode to the FTO glass substrate, the resulting fabric is no longer flexible (and thus not wearable). There are several DSSC designs, including DSSC wires [224]- [226], fibers [203], [227]- [228], metal strings [229], or sewing [230] to create DSSC textiles. Most of these approaches are aimed at the production of single fibers or wires with photovoltaic activity, which are then weaved into textiles [224], [227], [231]- [240].…”

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E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application

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Wearable devices are ideal for personalized electronic applications in several domains such as healthcare, entertainment, sports and military. Although wearable technology is a growing market, current wearable devices are predominantly battery powered accessory devices, whose form factors also preclude them from utilizing the large area of the human body for spatiotemporal sensing or energy harvesting from body movements. E-textiles provide an opportunity to expand on current wearables to enable such applications via the larger surface area offered by garments, but consumer devices have been few and far between because of the inherent challenges in replicating traditional manufacturing technologies (that have enabled these wearable accessories) on textiles. Also, the powering of e-textile devices with battery energy like in wearable accessories, has proven incompatible with textile requirements for flexibility and washing. Although current e-textile research has shown advances in materials, new processing techniques, and one-off e-textile prototype devices, the pathway to industry scale commercialization is still uncertain. This paper reports the progress on the current technologies enabling the fabrication of e-textile devices and their power supplies including textile-based energy harvesters, energy storage mechanisms, and wireless power transfer solutions. It identifies factors that limit the adoption of current reported fabrication processes and devices in the industry for mass-market commercialization. INDEX TERMSWearables, e-textile devices, e-textile power sources, e-textile manufacturing and scalability.

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“…For example, if the materials could be deposited or coated using low temperature paste or inks the whole cell assembly can be fabricated on transparent conducting oxide coated flexible plastic sheets like traditional glass based DSSC. However, this configuration needed careful optimization to achieve maximum output power since the cell is illuminated from the counter electrode side and the light is absorbed by semi-transparent catalyst and electrolyte [6]. Flexible DSSC fabricated on conductive plastics substrate or metal foil renders solar cell with conformabilities to uneven surfaces.…”

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Efficiency Enhancement of Flexible Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using TiO2 Nanotube/ZnS Nanoparticles Photoanode

Muhammed¹,

Abdullah²,

Al-Sammarraie³

2018

Asian J. Chem.

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A composite material, TiO2 nanotube arrays/ZnS nanoparticles (TNT/ZnS NPs) was assembled by deposition of ZnS nanoparticles onto anodized TiO2 nanotube by sequential chemical bath deposition method. The tube-based photoanodes are crystallized at 550 ºC prior to solar cell construction. The effect of annealing of TiO2 nanotube films at 550 ºC and pH values (7.5, 8.5 9.5) of prepared ZnS nanoparticles on the photovoltaic performance of flexible solar cells is studied. The characteristics of the flexible dye-sensitized solar cell were examined using a polyaniline as a counter electrode and KI/I2 as an electrolyte. Ruthenium dye (N719) was used as an active layer. The characterizations of the films were also accomplished by using atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffractometry and FTIR. The flexible dye-sensitized solar cells of TNT/ZnS nanoparticles photoanode achieved a power conversion efficiency of 0.75 % under 80 mW/cm 2 illuminations, which is higher than that of bare TiO2 nanotube photoanode (0.3 %).

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Review on Metallic and Plastic Flexible Dye Sensitized Solar Cell

Cited by 27 publications

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A paper-based electrode using a graphene dot/PEDOT:PSS composite for flexible solar cells

A paper-based electrode using a graphene dot/PEDOT:PSS composite for flexible solar cells

E-Textile Technology Review–From Materials to Application

Efficiency Enhancement of Flexible Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using TiO2 Nanotube/ZnS Nanoparticles Photoanode

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