Preliminary study: Potency metal complexes with UV-active ligands as dye sensitizer in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Abstract

The use of metal complexes as a dye sensitizer in DSSC (Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells) provides many promising opportunities. Complex compounds with ligands that actively absorb UV rays have the potential to be applied in technology solar cells in areas rich in UV rays such as Indonesia. This research aim is to investigate the potential of several complex compounds with UV active ligands and apply them as dye sensitizer in DSSC. Ligand phenanthroline (phen), and morin will be synthesized with several transition metals. The synthesized metal complexes were characterized by spectrophotometer UV-VIS (for all metal complexes) and spectrophotometer FTIR (for morin complexes). The performance of metal complexes as dye sensitizer will be analyzed from the current and voltage obtained and in this research was limited to the phenanthroline complex compound because the research was still in the ongoing process. The highest current produced by [Ni(phen)3]2+ with 0.452 mA while the highest voltage produced by complex [Fe(phen)3]2+ with 711 mV.