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Photovoltaic properties of ammoniated ruthenium oxychloride dye based solar cell

A. FATEHMULLA1,* , M. ATIF1, W. A. FAROOQ1, M. ASLAM1, F. YAKUPHANOGLU2, I. S. YAHIA3

Affiliation

  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O.Box 2455, Riyadh-11451, Saudi Arabia
  2. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey
  3. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, Faculty of Science King Khalid University P.O.Box 9004, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The most promising system for photo-electrochemical cell which has attracted extensively is the mesoporous semiconductor layer based on TiO2. The micrographs of atomic force microscope have widely supported the nano-structure of TiO2 thick film on FTO glass. In this study, we have fabricated a dye sensitized solar cell based on nanostructured TiO2 to investigate the electrical characterization of ammoniated ruthenium oxychloride dye (Ruthenium Red) based solar cell. We used the solar cell with an active area of 0.234 cm2 to measure a short circuit current density of 53μA/cm2 and an open circuit voltage of 0.45 V under AM1.5. For the DSSC applications the capacitance-voltage, the conductance-voltage and the series resistance-voltage characteristics of the solar cell were recorded in a wide frequency ranges. The experimental results of the current study led to this conclusion that the photovoltaic performance of the dye-sensitized solar cell can be enhanced/improved by using numerous dyes..

Keywords

TiO2 nanostructure, Ruthenium Red, Photovoltaic properties, Impedance spectroscopy.

Citation

A. FATEHMULLA, M. ATIF, W. A. FAROOQ, M. ASLAM, F. YAKUPHANOGLU, I. S. YAHIA, Photovoltaic properties of ammoniated ruthenium oxychloride dye based solar cell, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 8, 5-6, May-June 2014, pp.587-592 (2014).

Submitted at: May 1, 2014

Accepted at: May 15, 2014