Fabrication And Characterization Od Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell By Using Dragon Fruit And Henna

Nor Khalilah, A. Karim (2014) Fabrication And Characterization Od Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell By Using Dragon Fruit And Henna. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Solar cell is one of the renewable energy sources that available to replace the non-renewable energy such as fossil fuel energy. In general, solar cell also called as photovoltaic cell converts the sunlight into electrical energy. Solar cells can be divided into three generation where Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) is the third generation of solar cell which the advantage of the wide band gap semiconductor that sensitized to the light. Nowadays, researchers in all over the world are looking for a low cost technique or process to bring down the solar cell cost as the demanding for solar cell is increase from day to day. DSSC have the potential to generate green energy as it required low cost fabrication and inexpensive equipment. This project present the fabrication of DSSC using natural dyes that extracted from dragon fruit and henna. X-ray Diffraction (XRD) was carried out to study the microstructure of the material. Tests were conducted under the sunlight and the performance DSSC in terms of fill factor, efficiency, current density is investigated by using digital multimeter. We have successfully showed that the DSSC using dragon fruit and henna are potential candidate as a dye sensitizer and factors limiting of the DSSC are discussed.

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