Investigations of Perovskite and Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

This project is to develop, investigate, and quantify dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells to examine how they could be used for inexpensive and efficient energy production as opposed to a conventional silicon solar cell. This was achieved by making dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells in order to gather extensive measurements to determine the power efficiency of the devices made. Optical properties of the light sensitive materials were investigated to evaluate the light absorption properties of the materials. Qualitative information regarding the concentrations of the solutions were obtained using a x-ray fluorescence spectrometer. Through the x-ray absorption spectra the abundance of key elements such as Titanium and Lead were identified. In this conference the details of our results would be presented.