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Analysis of Catalytic Material Effect on the Photovoltaic Properties of Monolithic Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

  Natalita Maulani Nursam (1*), Ade Istiqomah (2), Jojo Hidayat (3), Putri Nur Anggraini (4), Shobih - (5)

(1) Indonesian Institute of Sciences - Indonesia - [ https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35764590500 ] orcid
(2) Telkom University - Indonesia
(3) Indonesian Institute of Sciences - Indonesia
(4) Indonesian Institute of Sciences - Indonesia
(5) Indonesian Institute of Sciences - Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

Received: August 18, 2017; Revised: September 13, 2017
Accepted: September 14, 2017; Published: December 31, 2017


How to cite (IEEE): N. M. Nursam, A. Istiqomah, J. Hidayat, P. N. Anggraini,  and S. -, "Analysis of Catalytic Material Effect on the Photovoltaic Properties of Monolithic Dye-sensitized Solar Cells," Jurnal Elektronika dan Telekomunikasi, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 30-35, Dec. 2017. doi: 10.14203/jet.v17.30-35

Abstract

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) are widely developed due to their attractive appearance and simple fabrication processes. One of the challenges that arise in the DSSC fabrication involves high material cost associated with the cost of conductive substrate. DSSC with monolithic configuration was then developed on the basis of this motivation. In this contribution, titanium dioxide-based monolithic type DSSCs were fabricated on a single fluorine-doped transparent oxide coated glass using porous ZrO2 as spacer. Herein, the catalytic material for the counter-electrode was varied using carbon composite and platinum in order to analyze their effect on the solar cell efficiency. Four-point probe measurement revealed that the carbon composite exhibited slightly higher conductivity with a sheet resistance of 9.8 Ω/sq and 10.9 Ω/sq for carbon and platinum, respectively. Likewise, the photoconversion efficiency of the monolithic cells with carbon counter-electrode almost doubled the efficiency of the cells with platinum counter-electrode. Our results demonstrate that carbon could outperform the performance of platinum as catalytic material in monolithic DSSC.


  http://dx.doi.org/10.14203/jet.v17.30-35

Keywords


carbon; counter-electrode; dye-sensitized; photovoltaic; platinum; solar cell

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