Performance analysis of solid-state dye sensitized solar cells by using scaps-1D simulation

Sha’aban, Ahmad Shahmi (2020) Performance analysis of solid-state dye sensitized solar cells by using scaps-1D simulation. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Energy consumption has become a hot topic in our beloved earth. It has been increasing and demanding. A lot of energy generation has created along the hundred years. Unfortunately, energy consumption has overused instead of the energy generation has decreasing. Therefore, a lot of studies and research about energy harvesting through other approaches. One of them are solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (SDSC). This device is one of the photovoltaic cells as solar cells with improvement of material consumption, cost reduction and environmental friendly. Also, a lot of test needed to find the best conversion efficiency for SDSC while it is high in cost and time taken to produce a single cell. Due to modern technology, this test can be run by using software, for this project SCAPS-1D software was applied. In SDSC, a lot of researcher has done with variation of material to find the best efficiency. This software can calculate C-V and A-C characteristic. Material tested for this device has compared to select the best material for solar cells. The measured output parameter are open-circuit voltage (Voc), short-circuit current density (Jsc), fill factor (FF) and efficiency (eta%). Hence, to find all of these output parameters, firstly need to insert the input parameter in SCAPS-1D. These parameters are layer thickness, annealing temperature, defect at the interface and doping density. As a result, the main objective of this project has achieved with CuO was the best hole transport material (HTM) layer. The conversion efficiency was 25.33% which higher compared to the other HTM layers.

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