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

Eli Danladi; Philibus Musa Gyuk; Muhammad Sani Ahmad; Isah Baba; Sunday Habila Sarki

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

Eli Danladi, Philibus Musa Gyuk, Muhammad Sani Ahmad, Isah Baba, Sunday Habila Sarki

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Abstract

We present an investigation on introducing core-shell Ag@SiO₂ nanoparticles (NPs) into dye-sensitized solar cells. Ag@SiO₂ present the chemical stability to iodide/triiodide electrolyte, and help to localize most of dye molecules around plasmonic silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), hence increasing the optical absorption consequently the overall conversion efficiency of the device. Deployment of the silver-modified assembly as a photo anode in dye-sensitized solar cells leads to solar-to-electrical energy conversion with an overall efficiency of 0.0088% for Ag-TiO₂ photo anode and 0.0176% for Ag@SiO₂-TiO₂ photo anode. This represents a 100.7% improvement over the performance of otherwise identical solar cell lacking corrosion-protected silver nanoparticles. The improvement is manifested chiefly as an increase in photocurrent density due to enhanced light harvesting by the AgNPs. The results revealed that, the performance of DSSCs could be well improved through enhancing the light absorption by local surface plasmon (LSP) effect from Ag@SiO₂ NPs by electronically and chemically protecting the metal from recombination and corrosion. The mechanism of getting the best utilization efficiency of LSP enhanced optical field is also investigated.

Published in	International Journal of Materials Science and Applications (Volume 5, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijmsa.20160505.16
Page(s)	214-221
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Silver Nanoparticles, DSSCs, TiO_{2, SILAR, Surface Plasmon, Ag@SiO_{2, Natural Pigment}}

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Eli Danladi

Department of Physics, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria
Philibus Musa Gyuk

Department of Physics, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria
Muhammad Sani Ahmad

Department of Physics, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria
Isah Baba

Department of Physics, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria
Sunday Habila Sarki

Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna

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AU  - Eli Danladi
AU  - Philibus Musa Gyuk
AU  - Muhammad Sani Ahmad
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