MoSe2 / Polyaniline Solar Cells

Solar cells have been investigated since long for harnessing the solar energy. During this decade, a new direction has come up where in the polymers have been used in the fabrication of solar cells. Polyaniline is one of the polymers which has shown potential for its applications in heterostructure...

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Main Authors: H.S. Patel, J.R. Rathod, K.D. Patel, V.M. Pathak, R. Srivastava
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Language:English
Published: Sumy State University 2011-01-01
Series:Журнал нано- та електронної фізики
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Online Access:http://jnep.sumdu.edu.ua/download/numbers/2011/1,%20Part%204/articles/jnep_2011_V3_N1(Part4)_741-746.pdf
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V.M. Pathak
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description Solar cells have been investigated since long for harnessing the solar energy. During this decade, a new direction has come up where in the polymers have been used in the fabrication of solar cells. Polyaniline is one of the polymers which has shown potential for its applications in heterostructure solar cells. This material is being used along with the semiconductors like InSe, TiO2, Si etc. to form the photosensitive interface. In this direction, we report our investigations on the use of Molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) as photosensitive semiconducting material in MoSe2 / polyaniline solar cells. In this paper, the preparation of MoSe2 / polyaniline solar cells has been reported. Also, the photovoltage → photocurrent characteristics of this structure have been discussed in detail in this paper. The variation of different parameters of MoSe2 / polyaniline solar cells (like open circuit voltage, short circuit current, photoconversion efficiency and fill factor) with the intensity of incident illuminations has been reported in this paper. In present case, the photocurrent density was found to be around 250 µA/cm2 with the photovoltage around 8.5 mV (which is low) the photoconversion efficiency was found to be around 0.7 % along with the fill factor around 0.33. The efforts have been made to explain the low values of the photoconversion efficiency.
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spelling doaj-art-1435255837ca481bb42abc52e2b2b4562025-08-20T01:59:04ZengSumy State UniversityЖурнал нано- та електронної фізики2077-67722011-01-0131741746MoSe2 / Polyaniline Solar CellsH.S. PatelJ.R. RathodK.D. PatelV.M. PathakR. SrivastavaSolar cells have been investigated since long for harnessing the solar energy. During this decade, a new direction has come up where in the polymers have been used in the fabrication of solar cells. Polyaniline is one of the polymers which has shown potential for its applications in heterostructure solar cells. This material is being used along with the semiconductors like InSe, TiO2, Si etc. to form the photosensitive interface. In this direction, we report our investigations on the use of Molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) as photosensitive semiconducting material in MoSe2 / polyaniline solar cells. In this paper, the preparation of MoSe2 / polyaniline solar cells has been reported. Also, the photovoltage → photocurrent characteristics of this structure have been discussed in detail in this paper. The variation of different parameters of MoSe2 / polyaniline solar cells (like open circuit voltage, short circuit current, photoconversion efficiency and fill factor) with the intensity of incident illuminations has been reported in this paper. In present case, the photocurrent density was found to be around 250 µA/cm2 with the photovoltage around 8.5 mV (which is low) the photoconversion efficiency was found to be around 0.7 % along with the fill factor around 0.33. The efforts have been made to explain the low values of the photoconversion efficiency.http://jnep.sumdu.edu.ua/download/numbers/2011/1,%20Part%204/articles/jnep_2011_V3_N1(Part4)_741-746.pdfPolyanilineMoSe2Photovoltage photocurrentdensity characteristicsPhoto conversion efficiencySolar cells
spellingShingle H.S. Patel
J.R. Rathod
K.D. Patel
V.M. Pathak
R. Srivastava
MoSe2 / Polyaniline Solar Cells
Журнал нано- та електронної фізики
Polyaniline
MoSe2
Photovoltage photocurrentdensity characteristics
Photo conversion efficiency
Solar cells
title MoSe2 / Polyaniline Solar Cells
title_full MoSe2 / Polyaniline Solar Cells
title_fullStr MoSe2 / Polyaniline Solar Cells
title_full_unstemmed MoSe2 / Polyaniline Solar Cells
title_short MoSe2 / Polyaniline Solar Cells
title_sort mose2 polyaniline solar cells
topic Polyaniline
MoSe2
Photovoltage photocurrentdensity characteristics
Photo conversion efficiency
Solar cells
url http://jnep.sumdu.edu.ua/download/numbers/2011/1,%20Part%204/articles/jnep_2011_V3_N1(Part4)_741-746.pdf
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