TiO2 dye sensitized solar cells cathode using recycle battery

Abstract

This paper proposed an alternative source of carbon material from recycled battery for the fabrication of cathode of a dye sensitized solar cell. Carbon from recycle battery is extracted and used to fabricate the cathode part of a dye sensitized solar cell by using TiO2 as the anode. The both anode and cathode is fabricated on a 6 × 2cm2 indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass and then tested under the solar irradiance of 693.69 w/m2 and average temperature 44.4 oC. Result shows that by using carbon from a recycle battery a Voc of 0.333V and short circuit current of 166.04 μA is produce. © IOP Publishing Ltd 2013.