Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2024 Conference (MATSUS24)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2024.446
Publication date: 18th December 2023
Tremendous advances have been made in photovoltaics (PV) in recent years, including in the development of emerging technologies such as perovskite PV, organic PV and dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs). These technologies can be applied to areas where silicon PV is not well suited, including power for consumer electronics, electromobility, building-integrated PV with attractive appearance, flexible, light-weight and semi-transparent PV, indoor energy scavenging and more. In some of these applications areas, simplicity and low-cost for the devices can become as important as efficiency to achieve practical systems. DSSCs offer a promising choice for applications requiring low-cost indoor power generation for powering the emerging internet-of-things. However, they currently include complex and costly sensitizers which require long synthesis procedures, alongside electrolytes that can be detrimental to stability and/or ease of fabrication. The presentation will focus on our recent work on DSSCs aiming to simplify the dye [1, 2] and the electrolyte components [3, 4] towards more-readily fabricated and readily-scaled technology.
JASSO, Royal Thai Government DPST, EPSRC