Performance Comparison of Cost Efficient Natural Dye Sensitized Solar Cell

Afshana Afroj Bristi; S. M. Jahadun-Nobi; Md Nurul Abser; Md Mehadi Hassan

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Performance Comparison of Cost Efficient Natural Dye Sensitized Solar Cell

Afshana Afroj Bristi, S. M. Jahadun-Nobi, Md Nurul Abser, Md Mehadi Hassan

Published in American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 9, Issue 4)

Received: 7 July 2020 Accepted: 22 July 2020 Published: 19 August 2020

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) enticed the attention in photovoltaic design due to their unique features of ease of fabrication, low-cost materials, tunable color, and flexibility. In this work, we studied the performance of a low cost dye-sensitized solar cell structure with several natural dyes as a sensitizer. Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) was used as the semiconducting layer. The TiO₂ film was fabricated on Florine doped Tin Oxide (FTO) glass plate and was annealed and sintered for an hour at 450°C temperature to create a mesoporous layer. To reduce the manufacturing cost, we used Carbon black instead of Platinum (Pt) as a counter electrode. Carbon black provides excellent stability and shows high catalytic ability along with its low cost as the counter electrode in the DSSCs. Eight different dyes have been extracted and purified by Silica gel column chromatography to use in the DSSCs. UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy has been done to measure the absorbance coefficient and fluorescence coefficient of each of the cells. The cells with an additional peak in the fluorescence spectra showed much better electrical performance compared with others. Among the fabricated DSSCs, the Curcuma longa based DSSC gives the highest open-circuit voltage of 0.5959 V and short circuit current density of 1.06 mA/cm². The study also indicates that the dyes with a peak at 380 nm to 400 nm wavelength at fluorescence spectrum has better photovoltaic performance rather with a moderate absorbance spectrum.

Published in	American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.epes.20200904.11
Page(s)	60-66
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, Natural Dye, Counter Electrode, Column Chromatography, Absorbance Coefficient, Fluorescence

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Afshana Afroj Bristi, S. M. Jahadun-Nobi, Md Nurul Abser, Md Mehadi Hassan. Performance Comparison of Cost Efficient Natural Dye Sensitized Solar Cell. Am J Electr Power Energy Syst. 2020;9(4):60-66. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20200904.11

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Afshana Afroj Bristi

Department of Chemistry, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
S. M. Jahadun-Nobi

Department of EEE, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Sonapur, Noakhali, Bangladesh
Md Nurul Abser

Department of Chemistry, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Md Mehadi Hassan

Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, AB, Canada

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