Improvement of the Performance of Purple Carrot Sensitized Solar Cells by Acidic Treatment of FTO Glass Substrate and TiO₂ Film

• Authors: I. Radwan , S. Taya , T. El-Agez , M. Abdel-Latif , H. Ghamri
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, dye sensitized solar cells were prepared using titanium dioxide (TiO₂) and natural dye extracted from purple carrot. The performance of dye sensitized solar cells was significantly improved through the pre- and post-treatments of the fluorinated tin oxide (FTO) glass substrate and the TiO₂ film using hydrochloric (HCl), phosphoric (H₃PO₄), and nitric (HNO₃) acids. The results showed that the pre-treatment of the FTO with H₃PO₄ and the post-treatment of TiO₂ with HNO₃ resulted in improved efficiencies of 130% and 250%, respectively.

Keywords

EN

88.40.-j; 88.40.H-

Discipline

• 88.40.H-: Solar cells (photovoltaics)
• 88.40.-j: Solar energy

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 130
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 795-799

Dates

published

2016-09

received

2015-10-10

(unknown)

2016-06-10

Contributors

author

I. Radwan

• Physics Department, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine

author

S. Taya

• Physics Department, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine
• Renewable Energy Center, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine

author

T. El-Agez

• Physics Department, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine
• Renewable Energy Center, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine

author

M. Abdel-Latif

• Renewable Energy Center, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine
• Chemistry Department, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine

author

H. Ghamri

• Physics Department, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine
• Renewable Energy Center, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.130.795