The high molar absorption coefficient organic D-π-A dye C220 exhibits more than 6% certified electric power conversion efficiency at AM 1.5G solar irradiation (100 mW cm(-2)) in a solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell using 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis(N,N-dimethoxyphenylamine)-9,9'-spirobifluorene (spiro-MeOTAD) as the organic hole-transporting material. This contributes to a new record (6.08% by NREL) ...

One-dimensional titania nanostructures can serve as a support for light absorbing molecules and result in an improvement in the short circuit current (Jsc) and open circuit voltage (Voc) as a nanostructured and high-surface-area material in dye-sensitized solar cells. Here, self-assembled amyloid-like peptide nanofibers were exploited as an organic template for the growth of one-dimensional tit...

Abstract The optical properties of semiconductor material are the important information for its application in solar cell. One parameter which influence is band gap energy. value energy can be obtained from experimental data UV-Vis absorbance spectrum by doing three steps, i.e. curve smoothing, baseline arrangement and calculation using Tauc plot method embedded Origin software. Conventionally,...

The objective of this investigation was to shed light on the nature of interaction of different organic dyes and an inorganic dye, Ruthenium (II) polypyridine complex, with TiO2 nanoparticles. TiO2 is commonly deployed as an efficient energy transfer electrode in dye sensitized solar cells. The efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells is a function of the interaction of a dye with the electrode...

Solar cells must accomplish two basic tasks to generate current: absorb incident photons and conduct excited electrons to the circuit. Traditional solar cells made of silicon accomplish these with a single, expensive material. Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are an alternative using separately optimized materials for each task. In short, a dye absorbs the photons and injects them into a semic...