Study the effect of nickel and aluminium doped ZnO photoanode in DSSC

Arith, Faiz and Mohd Alias, Nur Syafiqah Nadiah and Noorasid, Nur Syamimi and Ismail, Mohd Muzafar and Nor, Mohd Khanapiah and Sarkawi, Hafez and Muhammad Mustafa, Ahmad Nizamuddin (2022) Study the effect of nickel and aluminium doped ZnO photoanode in DSSC. TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics And Control), 20 (5). pp. 1117-1124. ISSN 1693-6930

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Abstract

Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) is one of the promising candidates which are efficient, low-cost, and clean hybrid molecular solar cell devices. Zinc oxide (ZnO) has been widely used as the phoanode in DSSC due to its excellent charge conduction mechanism, yet still suffers from poor cell efficiency. In this study, aluminium doped ZnO (ZnO:Al) and Ni doped ZnO (ZnO:Ni) were studied as photoanode material in DSSC using solar cell capacitance simulator (SCAPS) simulation, and the electrolyte liquid considered a single solid p-type layer as hole transporting materials. Both studied photoanodes have demonstrated better cell performance than pure ZnO photoanode due to the small amount of aluminium (Al) and nikel (Ni) impurities added have enhanced the physiochemical properties of ZnO films. A power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 3.96% was obtained at 3 mol% ZnO:Al photoanode with optimized key parameters. These simulation results proved an opportunity to improve the performance of the DSSCs via doping engineering into the ZnO photonaode.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Al-doped ZnO, Buffer layers, DSSC, Ni-doped ZnO, Scaps 1D
Divisions:	Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering
Depositing User:	Norfaradilla Idayu Ab. Ghafar
Date Deposited:	14 Apr 2023 14:24
Last Modified:	14 Apr 2023 14:24
URI:	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/26741
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