Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Using Natural Dye Extracted from Damakase (Ocimum Lamiifolium) and Dambursa (New Plant)

Ashenafi Belete Lejamo; Zekarias Gebreyes Eticha; Allah Dekama Jarra

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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Using Natural Dye Extracted from Damakase (Ocimum Lamiifolium) and Dambursa (New Plant)

Ashenafi Belete Lejamo, Zekarias Gebreyes Eticha, Allah Dekama Jarra

Published in Advances in Materials Chemistry (Volume 1, Issue 2)

Received: 22 May 2017 Accepted: 5 June 2017 Published: 1 August 2017

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Abstract

Dye Sensitized solar cells were made using two locally available plants, Damakase (Ocimum lamiifolium) and Dambursa (New plant) used to extract the natural dye. The pigment was extracted using four solvents, ethanol, methanol, 0.1M hydrochloric acids and distilled water. Then to construct the DSSCs indium tin oxide immersed in the natural dye were used asa counter electrode and Nano crystalline ZnO were act as a working electrode, iodide/tri iodide were placed in between as an electrolyte. The absorption peak and its corresponding wavelength were measured, and then by varying the resistance value, the open circuit current and potential was calculated. Finally from the results the fill factor, performance efficiency and the incident photon conversion efficiency (IPCE) were calculated. At the end the calculated value revealed that, a pigment extracted from Dambursa leaf using solvent ethanol have relatively maximum efficiency and current densities with a value of 0.3675 and 0.264mAcm^-2 respectively.

Published in	Advances in Materials Chemistry (Volume 1, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.amc.20170102.12
Page(s)	55-61
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Natural Dye, Solvents, Electrode, Fill Factor, IPCE

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Ashenafi Belete Lejamo; Zekarias Gebreyes Eticha; Allah Dekama Jarra. Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Using Natural Dye Extracted from Damakase (Ocimum Lamiifolium) and Dambursa (New Plant). Adv. Mater. Chem. 2017, 1(2), 55-61. doi: 10.11648/j.amc.20170102.12

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Ashenafi Belete Lejamo, Zekarias Gebreyes Eticha, Allah Dekama Jarra. Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Using Natural Dye Extracted from Damakase (Ocimum Lamiifolium) and Dambursa (New Plant). Adv Mater Chem. 2017;1(2):55-61. doi: 10.11648/j.amc.20170102.12

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Ashenafi Belete Lejamo

Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural and Computational Science, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Zekarias Gebreyes Eticha

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
Allah Dekama Jarra

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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