Green Solar Cells

The Effect of PANI/TiO2/FTO-

Glass Bilayer Thin Film structure on
The Efficiency of DSSC
S W Himmah, U Sa’adah, A D Iswatin, M Diantoro
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural
Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang, Jl. Semarang 5 Malang
65145, Indonesia
 Introduction :
Background and Motivation

Experimental Method

Outline Results

Conclusion
Background and Motivation
Sustainable
energy resources
80% Solar cells
fossil fuels

Energy
and
fuel crisis Enviromental
damage
Indonesia has a Renewables energy 2017
tropical climate

Silicon Crystals Thin Film DSSC

Difficult fabrication Produce waste Easy fabrication

Expensive Environmentally friendly
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 Background and Motivation

Daghman et. al, 2015

0.0004% PANI/TiO2/FTO-Glass
Bilayer Thin Film
structure
PANI/TiO2 heterojunction
systems using spin coating
Ameen et. al, 2009 method

0.005%
Aniline/TiO2 plasma
polymerization

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 Experimental Method

• PANI ES and TiO2 Nps synthesis

• Preparation TiO2 paste

• TiO2 paste coating on FTO/Glass using screenprinting
• Annealing at 450 ᵒC for 30 minutes

• Preparation PANI solution

• PANI solution coating on TiO2/FTO/Glass using screenprinting
• Annealing at 100 ᵒC for 10 minutes

• Spinach and dragon fruit leaf extracts are dripped on the surface
of photoanoda

• Fabrication DSSC with PANI/TiO2/FTO/Glass as photoanode,

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Result : Functional Groups of PANI/TiO2

A quinoid ring C (C = N) stretching

vibration at a wavelength of 1511 cm-1 and a
benzenoid ring (NBN) at 1404 cm-1 which is
PANI backbone

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Result : Absorbance of PANI/TiO2

The wavelength region of 300-700 nm

which is an area of ultraviolet-visible light
wavelength

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Result : Band Gap Energy of PANI/TiO2

The energy band increase with

increasing rpm speed
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Result : Photodetector of PANI/TiO2

The average current is able to reach

95.63 µA, while TiO2/FTO-Glass
produce lower average currents

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Result : IV-Curve of PANI/TiO2

the with increasing rpm

The solar simulator results show a

decrease in the efficiency with
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 Conclusion

• PANI/TiO2/FTO-Glass have been successfully fabricated

• The absorbance of PANI/TiO2/FTO-Glass is in the range of the visible wavelength region
• The energy band increases with increasing rpm speed
• TiO2/FTO-Glass produce lower average currents than PANI/TiO2/FTO-Glass
• The efficiency decreases with increasing rpm speed

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