A very simple flexible tandem dye-sensitized solar cell

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2024-12-01

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2731-6734

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Alessa H, Wijayantha KGU. (2024) A very simple flexible tandem dye-sensitized solar cell. Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 2024, pp. 698-706

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been proposed as the most important third generation photovoltaic devices owing to their low fabrication cost, design flexibility, having low hazard to the environment and ease of construction. Tandem DSSCs (T-DSSC) were said to possess properties of its sensitized photoanode and sensitized photocathode in terms of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) parameters. With less studies on the fabrication of simple a flexible tandem DSSC, this work aims at filling this gap as well as showing the influence of one of the main factors that affect the performance of such a device. In this paper, TiO2 and NiO layers were prepared by blading method, sensitized separately, then sandwiched together. The fabricated device produced short circuit current, open circuit voltage and power conversion efficiency of 0.138 mA.cm−2, 0.942 V and 0.063%, respectively. This simple T-DSSC produced a high photovoltage and showed that the photocurrent produced by each photoelectrode should be identical. This match is to overcome the possible hump in the device performance.

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40 Engineering, 4016 Materials Engineering, 34 Chemical Sciences

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