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Photovoltaic response of Carissa spinarum berry extract in dye-sensitized solar cell

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The presented work deals with the titanium dioxide semiconductor-based dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) performance analysis. The DSSC is sensitized with natural dye extracted from Carissa spinarum fruit with iodide-Tri-iodide as an electrolyte and graphite coated transparent conducting oxide as back electrode. The dye characteristics were investigated by Fourier transform infrared, ultraviolet-visible, and photoluminescence spectroscopy to study the associated functional groups, optical band gap, and emission, respectively. The understudied dye showed an absorption edge at 530nm with an optical band gap around 2.2eV and a broad emission band from 630 to 820nm and with a sharp peak at 741nm. Cyclic voltammograms were employed to estimate the energy levels of the understudy sensitizer. This well-characterized dye has been successfully used in DSSC, and its photovoltaic response was studied under-stimulated AM 1.5 solar illumination using 100mWcm−2 light intensity. For this cell, the short circuit current density (JSC) was 4.17mAcm−2 and the open circuit voltage was 0.423V leading to the power conversion efficiency of 0.956%. Furthermore, this device was also subjected to an open-circuit voltage decay study. We also calculated the lifetime of decay, series resistance (RS), saturation current (IS), shunt resistance (RSh), and the ideality factor (n). Also, an in-depth investigation related to recombination phenomena and how these associated parameters influence the cell’s photovoltaic (PV) properties was carried out. The PV performance was also tested in different wavelengths (red, green, blue, etc.) and various useful parameters were calculated.

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Ahmad, P.A., Mir, F.A. Photovoltaic response of Carissa spinarum berry extract in dye-sensitized solar cell. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 98581–98588 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21584-1

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