Bibliographic citations
Huamán, A., (2021). Estudio teórico y experimental de celdas solares basadas en películas nanoestructuradas de TiO2 sensibilizadas con colorantes naturales extraídos del Zea Mays y de la Bixa Orellana [Tesis, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/22474
Huamán, A., Estudio teórico y experimental de celdas solares basadas en películas nanoestructuradas de TiO2 sensibilizadas con colorantes naturales extraídos del Zea Mays y de la Bixa Orellana [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/22474
@phdthesis{renati/712002,
title = "Estudio teórico y experimental de celdas solares basadas en películas nanoestructuradas de TiO2 sensibilizadas con colorantes naturales extraídos del Zea Mays y de la Bixa Orellana",
author = "Huamán Aguirre, Arnold Anthony",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería",
year = "2021"
}
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) are attractive solar-to-electric energy conversion devices due to their low-cost and flexible manufacturing. They are based on the sensitization of a wide bandgap semiconductor consisting of a nanoporous film with a large surface area. The dye, located on the surface of the film, plays the important role of absorbing light and injecting electrons into the conduction band of the semiconductor. Typically, inorganic compounds based on ruthenium complexes are employed as sensitizing molecules for CSSC. However, the use of these synthetic colorants has disadvantages such as high cost and toxicity. In contrast, natural colorants are easily extracted and their organic components, which also absorb sunlight, can be used as sensitizers for CSSC. In this thesis work, colorants were extracted from Zea Mays and Bixa Orellana, natural products from Peru, for the sensitization of nanoporous titanium dioxide (TiO2) films. The manufactured CSSCs were studied from the theoretical and experimental point of view in two main stages. In the first, the computational simulation of the dye molecules was performed using the TD-DFT method and the Dynamic Molecular Simulation (DMS) of the interaction between the dye and TiO2. The analysis was complemented with UV-Visible and infrared (FTIR) optical characterizations. In the second stage, the transport and recombination processes that occur in the solar cell were studied. For this, the methods of transient measurements of small modulation, extraction of charges and impedance spectroscopy were used. Computational simulations determined that cinidin-3-glucoside (C3G), the main component of Zea Mays, sensitizes the TiO2 film through a monodentate anchor through one of the hydroxyl groups. For its part, bixin, which makes up Bixa Orellana, anchors through the carboxyl group and also showed a tendency to form agglomerates on TiO2. The charge extraction technique allowed to establish the distribution of trap states of the sensitized films. Small-modulation transient measurements provided information about time constants and diffusion coefficient. It was concluded that the film sensitized with C3G presented a higher density of trap states and a lower level in the conduction band, which resulted in shorter electron life times. The Bixin sensitized film exhibited better diffusion for its free charge carriers. This was corroborated with impedance spectroscopy, in which the diffusion length parameters pointed to the Bixin cell with better charge collection efficiency. All the results were in agreement with the characteristic curves of current - voltage and with the spectral curve of efficiency of conversion of incident photons to electrons (IPCE).
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