Invertis Journal of Renewable Energy
Year : 2011, Volume : 1, Issue : 1
First page : ( 47) Last page : ( 50)
Print ISSN : 2231-3419.

Fabrication of Parallel Connected Dye-Sensitized Solar Module Using Graphite Sheet as a Counter Electrode and Platinum Nano Clusters as Catalyst

Das Sthitadhi*, Tripathy Suraj K., Bhati Ravindra S., Gupta Sushil, Samanta Pinaki R., Majumdar Amitava

Corporate R & D, Moser Baer India Ltd., Greater Noida, India

*E-mail: sthitadhi.das@moserbaer.net

Online published on 10 August, 2015.

Abstract

Parallel connected dye sensitized solar module on a substrate of 5 cm X 5cm (DSSC) is designed using graphite sheet as counter electrode. Pt Nanocatalyst is sintered on the graphite sheet. It is compared with the parallel-connected DSSC with FTO glass as counter electrode. A technique for efficient current collection system using copper wire is also described. The former device showed an efficiency of 2.2% where the later one showed 0.7% efficiency. Our investigation suggests a simple technique to enhance the efficiency of the device by replacing FTO glass with graphite sheet.

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Keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell, graphite sheet, platinum paste.

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