Effect of Combination of Natural Dyes and the Blocking Layer on the Performance of DSSC

Mubarak Ahmad Khan, Saiful Huque, Tomoaki Ikegami, Fumiaki Mitsugi, Bikram Ghosh, Prosenjit Barua, Md. Robiul Hossain, Md. Saifur Rahaman, Fahmid Kabir, Md. Serajum Serajum Manir and Md.Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan

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Abstract: Over the years, researchers have been working on replacing sensitized dye for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC), because of its low production cost, biodegradability, and non-toxicity. However, the overall performance of natural dye-based DSSCs is low compared to the DSSCs sensitized with Ruthenium based dyes. The combination of natural dyes with an optimized choice of the extracting solvents and the proper volume ratio of mixture of the dyes, enhances inherent properties, such as absorption and adsorption of the dyes. It also allows the device to utilize photon energy more efficiently over the entire visible wavelength. As a result, DSSC sensitized with the dye mixture shows higher absorbance, and cumulative absorption properties over the whole visible region than the DSSC fabricated with individual dyes and showed higher photocurrent. Another effective way to improve cell efficiency is by using a blocking layer. The blocking layer increases the photocurrent, is mainly due to the improvement of the electron recombination at the transparent conducting oxide/electrolyte interfaces. Also, the blocking layer's compact structure creates an effective pathway for electron transportation; thus, the device's photocurrent increases. Additionally, a slight improvement in the open-circuit voltage and fill factor was observed, thus cell efficiency enhances significantly. By both the proper ratio of dye mixture and the blocking layer improves cell performance of DSSC and opens a new pathway for future studies.

Keywords: DSSC; natural dye; natural dye based DSSC; dye combination; blocking layer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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