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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) from Black Rice and its Performance Improvement by Depositing Interconnected Copper (Copper Bridge) into the Space between TiO2 Nanoparticles

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Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) which employed natural dye from black rice has been successfully fabricated and improved its performance by depositing interconnected copper (copper bridge) on the space between TiO2. The copper bridge has significant role in minimizing recombination of electron-hole which occurred in TiO2 surface by trapping electron and facilitating to anode. The presence of interconnected copper nanoparticle in the space between TiO2 nanoparticle was confirmed by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD). The current-voltage (I-V) characterization of DSSC solar cells by using Keithley 617 was also performed to investigate performance of solar cells under sun illumination in varying intensities. It is found that performance of copper coated DSSC solar cells (efficiency 0.35% and fill factor 0.35) is higher than DSSC without copper coating (efficiency 0.17% and fill factor 0.35). This result is consistent with impedance spectroscopy analyzing where the internal resistance of copper coated DSSC solar cells is lower than DSSC without coated. It is concluded that performance of DSSC increasing with decreasing of internal resistance. Our finding is higher than other researcher reports in Ref. [13] and [14] with similar structure and kind of natural dye. In addition, this paper also reports the use of polymer electrolyte which employing polyvinyl acetate (PVA) containing lithium ion to maintain long-term stability of device.

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Materials Science Forum (Volume 737)

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43-53

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Sahrul Saehana, Elfi Yuliza, Pepen Arifin, Khairurrijal Khairurrijal, Mikrajuddin Abdullah

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Copper Bridge, DSSC, Internal Resistance, I-V Performance

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