Performance Evaluation of Zinc-Phthalocyanine as an Active Material in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Authors

Ghazi Nowsherwan¹ , Mohsin Khan¹ , Muhammad Ahmad¹ , Syed Hussain¹ , Saira Riaz¹ , Shahzad Naseem¹

1. Punjab University

Conference / event

4th iiScience International Conference, March 2024 (LCWU, Lahore, Pakistan)

Poster summary

For efficient light energy capture and conversion, we fabricated a ZnPC: PC70BM-based dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) and estimated its performance using a solar cell capacitance simulator (SCAPS-1D). We evaluated the output parameters of the ZnPC: PC70BM-based DSSC with different photoactive layer thicknesses, series and shunt resistances, and back-metal work function. Our analyses show that moderate thickness, minimum series resistance, high shunt resistance, and high metal-work function are favorable for better device performance due to low recombination losses, electrical losses, and better transport of charge carriers. In addition, indepth research for clarifying the impact of factors, such as thickness variation, defect density, and doping density of charge transport layers, has been conducted. The best efficiency value found was 10.30% after tweaking the parameters. It also provides a realistic strategy for efficiently utilizing DSSC cells by altering features that are highly dependent on DSSC performance and output.

Keywords

Dye Sensitized, Solar Cells, Performance

Research areas

Physics

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No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2024 Nowsherwan et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.