Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Structure

The solar energy to power conversion efficiency of a dssc is influenced by various components of the cell such as the dye electrolyte electrodes and additives among others leading to varying experimental configurations.

Dye sensitized solar cell structure. It is based on a semiconductor formed between a photo sensitized anode and an electrolyte a photoelectrochemical system. In this research efficiency enhancement of dye sensitized solar cell dssc with ag doped tio 2 core shell c s as plasmonic photoanode structure abbreviated as ag tio 2 was investigated using sol gel dr blade method different amount of ag in two different thick of photoanode were applied to enhance the light absorption for high performance dsscs. Dye sensitized solar cells 4 have attracted great interest because of their potential application as a cost effective alternative to p n junction solar cells 5. Dye sensitized solar cells dsscs have garnered a lot of attention in recent years.

Since the demonstration of the first practical solar cell 60 years ago research on novel materials improved solar cell design and structure and innovative manufacturing processes have all contributed to a continuous increase in the efficiency of photovoltaic pv devices. Dye sensitized solar cells working principles challenges and opportunities khalil ebrahim jasim department of physics university of bahrain kingdom of bahrain schematic of the structure of the dye sensitized solar cell. In this paper we present the performance of two solid state dye sensitized solar cells ssdsscs through scaps 1d simulation. The five layers of proposed structures are in solid state.

A tandem structure was introduced to improve the spectral response of dye sensitized solar cells dsc without loosing their high external quantum yield. Light absorption models of dsc were proposed and light harvesting efficiency lhe and incident photon to current conversion efficiency ipce were calculated using absorption spectra of dye adsorbed tio 2 electrode electrolyte and. Structure of dye sensitized solar cell the main parts of single junction dye sensitized solar cell are illustrated schematically in figure 2. A large number of metal based and metal free dye sensitizers have now been reported and.

The cell is composed of four elements namely the transparent conducting and counter conducting electrodes the nanostructured wide bandgap semiconducting layer the. The modern version of a dye solar cell also known as the grätzel cell was originally co invented in 1988 by brian o regan and michael.