Abstract
The solar cell performance of the black dye, N719 dye and the cocktail of two dyes on TiO2 films were studied by mean of the utilization as light harvesting electrodes in solid-state FTO|TiO2|dye|CuI|Cr–FTO cells. The power conversion efficiencies of 3.8% and 3.0% are obtained when N719 and black dye were used. When the mixture of 1:1 of two dyes was used, the conversion efficiency rises to 4.6%. In the mixture of N719 and black dye, the N719 dye acts as the aggregation preventer and a co-absorber on TiO2 surfaces. The increased absorption of light by the two dyes results in increase of electron injection thus enhancing both the short-circuit current density and the open circuit voltage contributing to increased power conversion efficiency of the cell.
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