An Investigation on the Analysis of Graphene-based Counter Electrode with MATLAB Simulation for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Abstract

The ever-escalating demands for the clean energy and its environment concerns are widely exploring research area in the development of energy conversion devices. There are copious sustainable energy resources available in nature, among them solar energy is considered to be promising and potential energy source due to its inexhaustible and eco-friendly features. Among the photovoltaic devices; Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) gained an extensive development and remarkable attention due to its simple design and fabrication, eco-friendly properties, etc. In the design of DSSC devices, the counter electrode (CE) plays an important role in catalytic activity so, a worthwhile effort is necessary to seek for an active and inexpensive CE material. However, most of the CE materials have been discovered by using ‘trial and error’ method. In this research work, we selected graphene as CE material for analyzing the proposed DSSC performance and alternatively, the experimental data is computed with the help of user friendly simulation tool. Here, the overall proposed DSSC performance demonstrates that the graphene based CE is proficient of being considered for DSSCs during ambient light conditions and that enables to provide progress in the field of indoor light harvesting applications. Meanwhile, for the simulation process we opted MATLAB software package which facilitates to provide a significant path for the prospects and development of photovoltaic technology.