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Molecular design of carbazole-based dyes and the influence of Alkyl substituent on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells
, Article Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals ; Volume 629, Issue 1 , 2016 , Pages 29-43 ; 15421406 (ISSN) ; Zarandi, M ; Madram, A. R ; Bayat, Y ; Najafi Chermahini, A ; Ghahary, R ; Sharif University of Technology
Taylor and Francis Inc
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Carbazole is an alternant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of three fused rings with a large, aromatic system, containing nitrogen atom showing extensive electron delocalization. In this work, carbazole applied as π-conjugated bridge to construct electron donor–π–electron acceptor (D–π–A) organic dyes, where barbutiric acid and thiazolidine-2,4-dione as electron acceptor. The effects of these three acceptors and length of alkyl on the performance of the DSSCs were investigated systematically along with their photophysical and photo electrochemical properties. These series of organic dyes include (B-CH, B-C B, DT-CB, DB-CB). Our investigation indicate among dyes containing butyl as...
Design, synthesis and application of imidazole-based organic dyes in dye sensitized solar cells
, Article Journal of Electronic Materials ; Volume 49, Issue 6 , 2020 , Pages 3735-3750 ; Alinezhad, H ; Hosseinzadeh, B ; Ghahary, R ; Tajbakhsh, M ; Sharif University of Technology
Springer
2020
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Metal-free D–D–π–A type dyes (i.e., Car-Cy, Car-Rh, Dpa-Cy, and Dpa-Rh) were designed and synthesized for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In the structure of the sensitized dyes, an imidazole ring is connected to a carbazole or diphenylamine moiety as a donor while cyanoacetic acid or rhodanine-3-acetic acid was introduced as an acceptor/anchor. The molecular structures of D–D–π–A type dyes were characterized using IR, NMR and MS spectral data. The optical, electrochemical, theoretical, light harvesting property, HOMO/LUMO levels, redox behavior, and photovoltaic properties of the synthesized dyes were evaluated. Among the fabricated photovoltaic devices based on the prepared dye, Dpa-Cy...
Effect of ZnO nanoparticles coating layers on top of ZnO nanowires for morphological, optical, and photovoltaic properties of dye-sensitized solar cells
, Article Micromachines ; Volume 10, Issue 12 , 2019 ; 2072666X (ISSN) ; Farooq, W. A ; Iftikhar Khan, M ; Niaz Akhtar, M ; Rehman, S. U ; Ahmad, N ; Khalid, M ; Atif, M ; AlMutairi, M. A ; Irfan, M ; Sharif University of Technology
MDPI AG
2019
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This paper reports on the synthesis of ZnO nanowires (NWs), as well asthe compound nanostructures of nanoparticles (NPs) and nanowires (NWs+NPs) with different coating layers of NPs on the top of NWs and their integration in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In compound nanostructures, NWs offer direct electrical pathways for fast electron transfer, and the NPs of ZnOdispread and fill the interstices between the NWs of ZnO, offering a huge surface area for enough dye anchoring and promoting light harvesting. A significant photocurrent density of 2.64mA/cm2 and energy conversion efficiency of 1.43% was obtained with NWs-based DSSCs. The total solar-to-electric energy conversion efficiency...