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Abstract

Nanoparticles of copper oxide (CuO) are synthesized using a photolysis process. x -ray diffraction (XRD]) is utilized to investigate CuO nanoparticle's crystal structure, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is employed to analyze the morphology and the average nanoparticle diameters. Results indicated that the CuO nanoparticles have a monoclinic shape with a mean size of 14 nm. The UV -- Visible measurement is shown that the bandgap of CuO nanoparticles is 1.61 eV. The CuO nanoparticles were applied in a photoanode section to fabricate photo organic sensitizer solar cells. The 4,4'-((3,3'-dimethyl-[1,1'-biphenyl]-4,4'-diyl)bis(azaneylylidene))bis (methaneylylidene)) bis (2-methoxy-phenol) was synthesized via the Microwave irradiation method and used as an organic dye sensitizer with different concentrations for solar cells. The highest energy conversion efficiency of the devices was approved to be 10.3% by (ITO/ CuO nanoparticles/ photo organic sensitizer/iodine/ Ag film/ ITO).

Keywords

CuO, Nanoparticles, Organic dye, Photolysis, Solar cell

Subject Area

Chemistry

Article Type

Article

First Page

2133

Last Page

2143

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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