Synthesis and photocurrent density–photovoltage (J–V) characterization of a novel alizarin derivative dye for dye-sensitized solar cell technology
| dc.contributor.author | Abubakari, Ismail | |
| dc.contributor.author | Babu, Numbury Surendra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vuai, Said | |
| dc.contributor.author | Makangara, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-25T09:55:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-25T09:55:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | Abstract. Full text article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40095-021-00460-7 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Dye-sensitized solar cells technology has attracted extensive academic scholars’ interests due to their potential low-cost solar energy harvesting. Increasing performance of dye-sensitized solar cell needs more efficient dye to maximize solar energy absorption. This work presents the synthesis and J–V characterization studies for a novel alizarin derivative dye HDD. The dye was formed by the reaction between brominated alizarin and 5-hexyl-2-thiopheneboronic acid pinacol ester. The final dye product was successfully synthesized as brownish-orange solid. Characterization of the synthesized dye was done using spectroscopic techniques; mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance before photovoltaic performance investigation. The dye was found to be useful as photo-sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cell through calculation of conversion efficiency. Generally, the dye HDD showed better results in terms of photovoltaic properties with open-circuit voltage, short-circuit current density and fill factor of 0.65 V, 0.0146 A/cm2 and 0.612, respectively. The conversion efficiency of the cell using the synthesized dye HDD was found to be 5.81% under 100 mW/cm2 solar illuminations. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Abubakari, I., Babu, N. S., Vuai, S., & Makangara, J. (2022). Synthesis and photocurrent density–photovoltage (J–V) characterization of a novel alizarin derivative dye for dye-sensitized solar cell technology. International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, 13(2), 769-783. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40095-021-00460-7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/3989 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Photovoltage | en_US |
| dc.subject | Photovoltaic properties | en_US |
| dc.subject | Photocurrent density | en_US |
| dc.subject | Photo-sensitizer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Dye-sensitized solar cell | en_US |
| dc.subject | Solar energy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Solar cell technology | en_US |
| dc.title | Synthesis and photocurrent density–photovoltage (J–V) characterization of a novel alizarin derivative dye for dye-sensitized solar cell technology | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |