Synthesis and Solar Cell Application of Dye Sensitized Magnesium Oxide MgO

A.A. Elbadawi¹ , S. I. Hamza² , A.S. Hamed³ , Y.A. Alsabah⁴

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.10 , Issue.3 , pp.49-54, Jun-2022

Online published on Jun 30, 2022

Copyright © A.A. Elbadawi, S. I. Hamza, A.S. Hamed, Y.A. Alsabah . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

View this paper at   Google Scholar | DPI Digital Library

XML View     PDF Download

How to Cite this Paper

Abstract :
In this paper semiconductor material from Magnesium Oxide in different molar ratio namely (0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and 1.0) were successfully synthesized and crystal violet dye was used to fabricate Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs). This work aimed to study the performance of magnesium Oxide Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs). UV/VIS spectrometer was carried out to determine some optical properties of magnesium Oxide while current –voltage circuit was used to measure the parameters of solar cell. From UV-VIS spectrometer results the absorbance of all samples in range of (190-400) nm, the absorbance decrease when molarity of magnesium Oxide increase, the maximum absorption coefficient value of magnesium Oxide ? = 2.42 x 104 cm-1 for MgO (0.2 molar) sample at wavelength 275 nm, the optical energy band gab was increased from 3.773eV for MgO (0.2 molar) sample to 3.812eV for MgO (1.0 molar) sample. From current –voltage results circuit the values of fill factor is 0.74 and efficiency of solar cells increased from 0.2803% to 0.3409% according to magnesium Oxide molarity increasing. The study promised to use crystal violet dye with magnesium Oxide as solar cells materials for low cost.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Magnesium Oxide, Dye Sensitized Solar Cell, Efficiency, Crystal Violet Dye

References :
[1] D. S. Akramova and G. T. Q. Ortiqova. “The future of solar power technology is bright”. 2017.
[2] A. M. Bagher, M. M. A. Vahid, and M. Mohsen, “Types of solar cells and application”. American Journal of optics and Photonics, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 94-113, 2015.
[3] M. Buscema, D. J Groenendijk, S. I. Blanter, G. A. Steele, H. S. J. Vanderzat and A. C. Gomez, “Fast and broadband photoresponse of few-layer black phosphorus field-effect transistors”. Nano letters, Vol. 14, Issue 6, pp. 3347-3352, 2014.
[4] R. Kieffer, L. Bartnik, M. Bergamaschi, V. V. Belko, M. Billing, L. Bobb, J. Conway, M. Forster, P. Karataev, A. S. Konkov, R. O. Jones, T. Lefevre, J. S. Markova, S. Mazzoni, Y. P. Fuentes, A. P. Potylitsyn, J. Skanks and S. Wang, “Direct observation of incoherent Cherenkov diffraction radiation in the visible range”. Physical review letters, Vol. 121, Issue 5, pp. 054802, 2018.
[5] S. Aharon, A. Dymshits, A. Rotem and L. Etgar “Temperature dependence of hole conductor free formamidinium lead iodide perovskite based solar cells”. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 3, Issue 17, pp. 9171-9178, 2015.
[6] J. Bernede, “Organic photovoltaic cells: history, principle and techniques”. Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society, Vol. 53, Issue 3, pp. 1549-1564, 2008.
[7] T. Trupke, M. Green, and P. Würfel, “Improving solar cell efficiencies by up-conversion of sub-band-gap light”, Journal of applied physics, Vol. 92, Issue 7, pp. 4117-4122, 2002.
[8] T. W. Kim, Y. Ping, G. A. Galli and K. S. Choi “Simultaneous enhancements in photon absorption and charge transport of bismuth vanadate photoanodes for solar water splitting”. Nature communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 1-10, 2015.
[9] M. Chini, X. Wang, Y. Cheng, Y. Wu,D. Zhao, D. A. Telnov, S. I. Chu and Z. Chang, “Sub-cycle oscillations in virtual states brought to light”. Scientific reports, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 1-6, 2013.
[10] Z. L. Wang, “Progress in piezotronics and piezo-phototronics”. Advanced Materials, Vol. 24, Issue 34, pp. 4632-4646, 2012.
[11] J. Lutz, H. Schlangenotto, U Scheuermann, “Semiconductor power devices”. Physics, characteristics, reliability, Vol. 2, 2011.
[12] M. Paranthaman, G. Aravamudan, and G. V. Subba Rao, “Photoelectrochemical properties of metal-cluster oxide compounds, A2Mo3O8 and (LiY) Mo3O8”. Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol.10, Issue 4, pp. 313-322, 1988.
[13] L. Giribabu, R. K. Kanaparthi and V. Velkannan, “Molecular engineering of sensitizers for dye - sensitized solar cell applications”. The Chemical Record, A journal of chemical society of Japan, Vol. 12, Issue 3, pp. 306-328, 2012.
[14] K. Yan, Y. Qiu, W. Chen, M. Zhang and S. Yang, “A double layered photoanode made of highly crystalline TiO2 nanooctahedra and agglutinated mesoporous TiO2 microspheres for high efficiency dye sensitized solar cells”. Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 4, Issue 6, pp. 2168-2176, 2011.
[15] M. N. Kozicki, and H. J. Barnaby. “Conductive bridging random access memory—materials, devices and applications”. Semiconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 31, Issue 11, pp. 1-54, 2016.
[16] A. M. Mahran, and S. O. Abdellatif. “Optoelectronic Modeling and Analysis of Transparency against Efficiency in Perovskites/Dye-based Solar Cells”. International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM). 2021. IEEE.
[17] M. Hartman, O. Trnka, and V. Veselý, “Thermal dehydration of magnesium hydroxide and sintering of nascent magnesium oxide”. AIChE journal, Vol. 40, Issue. 3, pp. 536-542, 1994.
[18] A. Botha, and C. Strydom, “Preparation of a magnesium hydroxy carbonate from magnesium hydroxide”. Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 62, Issue 3, pp. 175-183, 2001.
[19] S. Yousef, and B. Ghasemi, “Precipitator concentration-dependent opto-structural properties of MgO nanoparticles fabricated using natural brine”. SN Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 5, pp. 1-10, 2020.
[20] T. A. N. Perris, A. K. Baranwal, H. Kanda, S. Fukumoto, S. Kanaya, T. Bessho, L. Conjocaru, T. Miyasaka, H. Segawa and S. Ito, “Effect of electrochemically deposited MgO coating on printable perovskite solar cell performance”. Coatings, Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 36, 2017.
[21] R. Prasanth,S. D. Kumar, A. Jayalakshmi, G. Singaravelu, K. Govindaraju and V. G. Kumar, “Green synthesis of magnesium oxide nanoparticles and their antibacterial activity”. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences, Vol. 48, Issue 8, pp. 1210 -1215, 2019.
[22] Y. A. Alsabah, A. TajElden, S. Alsalhi, A. A. Elbadawi and M. A. Siddig, “Structural and optical properties of A2YVO6 (A= Mg, Sr) double perovskite oxides”. Results in Physics, Vol.15, pp. 102589, 2019.
[23] S. Abdalla, A. Suliman, Y. Alsabah, A. Elbadawi and K. M. Haroun, “Thin Film Gum Arabic Doping by Potassium Bromide Solar Cells”. Journal of Thin films, Coating Science Technology and Application, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 23 – 29, 2020.
[24] S. Mishra, R. Choudhary, and S. Parida, “Structural, dielectric, electrical and optical properties of Li/Fe modified barium tungstate double perovskite for electronic devices”. Ceramics International, 2022.
[25] A. A. Elbadawi, Y. A. Alsabah, and H. H. Abuelhassan, “Physical and Electrical Properties of Gum Arabic”, Elsevier, pp. 75-91, 2018.