Enhancing the performance of dye-sensitized solar cell using nano-sized erbium oxide on titanium oxide photoanode by impregnation route

S. H.A. Ahmad; Amir Al-Ahmed; Abbas Saeed Hakeem; Thamraa Alshahrani; Q. Mahmood; Umer Mehmood; H. A. Qayyum; Muhammad Younas; Muhammad Illyas; H. Dafalla; Rahila Jawaid; A. Laref; Anya Josefa Yago

doi:10.1016/j.jpap.2021.100047

Enhancing the performance of dye-sensitized solar cell using nano-sized erbium oxide on titanium oxide photoanode by impregnation route

S. H.A. Ahmad^*, Amir Al-Ahmed, Abbas Saeed Hakeem, Thamraa Alshahrani, Q. Mahmood, Umer Mehmood, H. A. Qayyum, Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Illyas, H. Dafalla, Rahila Jawaid, A. Laref, Anya Josefa Yago

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Modification of conventional photoanode with oxide nanoparticles is a practical tactic to improve the performance of electrochemical devices. In this study, erbium oxide (Er₂O₃) nanoparticles were mixed with the TiO₂ paste and photovoltaic performance of the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) was investigated. The highest power conversion efficiency of 6.39% was reached with the 1 wt.% of Er₂O₃ in photoanode, while in the similar condition the device with the pure TiO₂ photoanode achieved the power conversion efficiency of 3.54%. This improvement in the power conversion efficiency was attributed to declining in charge recombination, improved open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current due to the presence of the critical amount of Er₂O₃. XPS analysis confirms the structural coherence between the Er₂O₃ and TiO₂, which enhanced the optical performance of the composite photoanode. Composite photoanodes were further characterized by FESEM-EDX, XRD, and AFM for structural and morphological studies.

Original language	English
Article number	100047
Journal	Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpap.2021.100047
State	Published - Sep 2021

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Erbium oxide
Light conversion
Nanoparticles
Photoanode
Power
Solar cell

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Ahmad, S. H. A., Al-Ahmed, A., Hakeem, A. S., Alshahrani, T., Mahmood, Q., Mehmood, U., Qayyum, H. A., Younas, M., Illyas, M., Dafalla, H., Jawaid, R., Laref, A., & Yago, A. J. (2021). Enhancing the performance of dye-sensitized solar cell using nano-sized erbium oxide on titanium oxide photoanode by impregnation route. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, 7, Article 100047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpap.2021.100047

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