Abstract
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) represent a promising third-generation photovoltaic technology due to their ease in fabrication, low cost, ability to operate in diffused light, flexibility, and being lightweight. Organic dye-sensitizers are vital components of the DSSCs. Comprehensive theoretical study of the dye’s spectroscopic properties, including excitation energies ground- and excited-state oxidation potential, allows to design and screen organic dye-sensitizers for an efficient DSSC. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) approaches have been efficiently used to estimate different optoelectronic properties of sensitizers. This chapter outlined the use of the DFT and TDDFT framework to design organic dye-sensitizers for DSSCs to predict different photophysical properties. Prediction of essential factors such as short-circuit current density (JSC), open-circuit voltage (VOC), along with charge transfer phenomena, will help experimental groups to fabricate DSSCs with higher photoconversion efficiency (PCE). Besides, this chapter includes a basic understanding of the mechanism of DSSCs, based on the energetics of the various constituents of the heterogeneous device.
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@inbook{Roy2021c, title = {Chapter: Computational screening of organic dye-sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells: DFT/TDDFT approach}, author = {J. Roy, S. Kar, J. Leszczynski}, editor = {J. Roy, S. Kar, J. Leszczynski (eds.)}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69445-6_8}, isbn = {978-3-030-69445-6}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-05-13}, volume = {32}, pages = {187-206}, publisher = {Springer, Cham}, series = {Development of Solar Cells. Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics}, abstract = {Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) represent a promising third-generation photovoltaic technology due to their ease in fabrication, low cost, ability to operate in diffused light, flexibility, and being lightweight. Organic dye-sensitizers are vital components of the DSSCs. Comprehensive theoretical study of the dye’s spectroscopic properties, including excitation energies ground- and excited-state oxidation potential, allows to design and screen organic dye-sensitizers for an efficient DSSC. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) approaches have been efficiently used to estimate different optoelectronic properties of sensitizers. This chapter outlined the use of the DFT and TDDFT framework to design organic dye-sensitizers for DSSCs to predict different photophysical properties. Prediction of essential factors such as short-circuit current density (JSC), open-circuit voltage (VOC), along with charge transfer phenomena, will help experimental groups to fabricate DSSCs with higher photoconversion efficiency (PCE). Besides, this chapter includes a basic understanding of the mechanism of DSSCs, based on the energetics of the various constituents of the heterogeneous device.}, keywords = {DFT, DSSC, Organic Sensitizer, TD-DFT}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} }