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Rose Bengal Based Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Using Conducting Polyaniline as Hole Transporter

P. Balraju, G.D. Sharma

Abstract


Solid-state dye-sensitized photo-voltaic cells have been fabricated with TiO2 as the electron conductor and oxalic acid doped polyaniline (OX-PANI) as the hole conductor. The OX-PANI was synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline in oxalic acid medium using potassium dichromate as oxidant. The cell shows photocurrent density of around 1 mA/cm2, an open circuit voltage of 430 mV, corresponding to an overall conversion efficiency of 2.16% under illumination of 10 mW/cm2.

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Dye Sensitized Solar Cell, Polyaniline, Titanium Dioxide (TiO2), Hole Conductor

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