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Effect of Π-electron system in organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells
Abdul Kalam Mahmud Hasan1, Towhid Hossain Chowdury2, Ashraful Islam3, Mohammad Shah Jamal4, Aizat Abdul Wadi5, Muhammad Irsyamuddin Mohd Zin6, Nowshad Amin7, Md. Akhtaruzzaman8, Mohd Aizat Abdul Wadi9.
We have evaluated the effect of π-electron system in donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) based organic dyes and observed the performances in dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC). Various π-conjugation structures with different molecular arrangements with and without possessed π-conjugation system were successfully evaluated with custom molecular organic dyes D-1, U01, AK-01, TA-St-CA, Ba-03 and YF02. The introduction of conjugated π-system in the D-π-A system elevated wide range of absorption spectra from 300 nm to 850 nm wavelength region. The DSSC based on dyes D-1, U01, AK-01, TA-St-CA, Ba-03 and YF02 showed onset absorption of 525 nm, 600 nm, 650 nm, 550 nm, 810 nm and 550 nm correspondingly on the TiO2 film. A dip at the IPCE spectra in the 350 nm-470 nm wavelength region for dye D-1and U01 were attributed to the competitive absorption of solar spectrum of I3- solution. The AK-01 and BA-03 dyes showed IPCE of 70% at the 360 nm–620 nm region and subsequently reaches up to a maximum of 84% at 450 nm. The U01 dye depicts IPCE of 70% at 400 nm–560 nm and peaks of 86% at 500 nm within the visible region. The sensitized YF02 dye reaches up to 75% at 350 nm-550 nm. The greater IPCE value of AK-01, TA-St-CA, YF02 and BA-03 in the UV zone suggested that these organic dyes successfully surpassed the dip of IPCE spectrum in that region. The photovoltaic performances of these sensitizers were verified by incident-photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE), open-circuit photovoltage (Voc), short-circuit photocurrent density (Jsc) and total Power conversion Efficiency (Æž). Dyes D-1 and U01 were without any π-linker showed Æž of 3.34% and 6.01% exhibiting Jsc of 6.42 mA cm-2 and 10.70 mA cm-2 respectively. Dyes with a π-conjugated oligo-phenylenevinylene unit linker showed Æž of 6.2% (AK-01), 5.41% (TA-St-CA) and 5.29 (YF02), dye with a fused dithienothiophene π-conjugated linker showed Æž of 6.38% (Ba-03) respectively. The corresponding Jsc of dyes AK-01, TA-St-CA, Ba-03 and YF02 were 15.40 mA cm-2, 10.10 mA cm-2, 16.17 mA cm-2 and 9.19 mA cm-2 followed by Voc of 0.640 V, 0.718 V, 0.595 V and 0.799 V respectively. The comparative analysis of IPCE reveals the effect of π-electron of these dyes to increase their corresponding light harvesting ability, reduced dye aggregation and low carrier recombination in DSSCs operation.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
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