Low-cost monolithic dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated on single conductive substrate

Nursam, Natalita Maulani; Anggraini, Putri Nur; Shobih, Shobih; Hidayat, Jojo

doi:10.1109/icramet.2017.8253168

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“…All of the monolithic cells show a similar curve shape characteristic. The shape of the I-V curves, however, are clearly different from an ideal solar cell I-V characteristic curve that has a high maximum power point (MPP) due to the high fill factor value (>0.5) under normal condition [23].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…First, the manual design of monolithic cells in planar architecture is likely considered as the cause of imperfect contact between the electrodes [21], which can contribute to charge recombination. The existence of spacer layer can also become the contributing factor for the low value possibly due to its inappropriate thickness, which potentially could promote recombination between the photogenerated electrons in semiconductor and holes in the electrolyte [23]. Nevertheless, the photovoltaic activity for all cells have worked perfectly, with the highest efficiency exceeded 1.6%.…”

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Modifications of Liquid Electrolyte for Monolithic Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Anggraini

Rosa

Nursam

et al. 2021

J. Elektron. dan Telekomun.

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) has been well known as a highly competitive photovoltaic technology owing to its interesting characteristics, such as, low-cost, simple, and convenient to modify both chemically and physically. One way to reduce the production cost of DSSCs is to conduct a structural modification in the form of a monolithic structure by using a single conductive substrate to accommodate both photoelectrode and counter electrode. However, the photovoltaic performance of monolithic DSSCs is typically still lacking compared to its conventional DSSCs counterparts that uses sandwich structure. One of the crucial factors that determine the photovoltaic performance of a monolithic DSSC is its electrolyte. In this work, the performance of monolithic DSSCs were studied through modifications of the electrolyte component. Two types of commercial liquid electrolytes that have different chemical properties were used and combined into various compositions, and the resulting DSSCs performances were compared. The stability of the monolithic cells was also monitored by measuring the cells repeatedly under the same condition. The result showed that during the first measurement the highest performance with a power conversion efficiency of 1.69% was achieved by the cell with a higher viscosity electrolyte. Meanwhile, the most stable performance is shown by the cell containing lower viscosity electrolyte, which achieved an efficiency of 0.66% that measured on day 35.

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Section: Sample Composition Ratios El-hpe El-hsementioning

confidence: 91%

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confidence: 99%

Modifications of Liquid Electrolyte for Monolithic Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Anggraini

Rosa

Nursam

et al. 2021

J. Elektron. dan Telekomun.

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Influence of Inorganic Binder Composition on the Structure-Property Relationship of Monolithic Dye-sensitized Solar Cells with Carbon-based Counter Electrode

Nursam

Shobih

Rosa

et al. 2019

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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In order to fabricate a low-cost dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), carbon has become a highly preferred catalytic material as counter-electrode, particularly for DSSC with monolithic structure. This paper presents novel synthesis method of carbon-based composite pastes using two types of carbon material, i.e. carbon nanopowder and activated carbon. The concentrations of the inorganic binder added to the composite pastes were varied to investigate their effect on the physical properties of the counter electrode and the electronic properties of the constructed monolithic DSSC. The inorganic binder used in this work was titanium dioxide nanoparticles, Evonik P25. After optimization, power conversion efficiency of 0.221% was achieved by the monolithic DSSC with counter electrode composite comprising activated carbon and titanium dioxide with weight concentration of 0.5 g and 0.25 g, respectively. Characterizations using gas sorption technique showed that the shape of the hysteresis curves obtained for all composites resembled the isotherm curve Type II and H3, indicating the presence of micropores. Furthermore, higher concentration of titanium dioxide nanoparticles as binder led to counter electrode with lower surface area. The solar cell efficiency, however, was found to be not only correlated to the surface area or the binder composition, but it was also determined by the type of the carbon material.

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