TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance Maintenance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using a Latent Heat Storage Material
AU - Haruki, Naoto
AU - Horibe, Akihiko
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24560234. We thank T. Taguchi and Dr. T. Uchida (Associate Professor, Okayama University) for their contributions to these experiments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - Recently, there has been considerable interest in various renewable energies. Among them, solar cell production has increased markedly because the photovoltaic is a clean and safe power generation method. The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) has attracted much attention as an alternative to silicon solar cells due to lower manufacturing costs and plentiful resources for DSSC production. However, the performance of DSSCs has been limited by their durability and low photoelectric conversion efficiency. Temperature control of DSSCs via phase-change materials (PCMs) is expected to improve performance. In this study, DSSCs were heated or cooled with a heat exchanger copper block that was in contact with a PCM (heptadecane), while being irradiated by a solar simulator light source. The durability and photoelectric conversion efficiency of the DSSC improved under PCM temperature control.
AB - Recently, there has been considerable interest in various renewable energies. Among them, solar cell production has increased markedly because the photovoltaic is a clean and safe power generation method. The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) has attracted much attention as an alternative to silicon solar cells due to lower manufacturing costs and plentiful resources for DSSC production. However, the performance of DSSCs has been limited by their durability and low photoelectric conversion efficiency. Temperature control of DSSCs via phase-change materials (PCMs) is expected to improve performance. In this study, DSSCs were heated or cooled with a heat exchanger copper block that was in contact with a PCM (heptadecane), while being irradiated by a solar simulator light source. The durability and photoelectric conversion efficiency of the DSSC improved under PCM temperature control.
KW - Durability
KW - Dye-sensitized solar cell
KW - Phase-change material
KW - Photoelectric conversion efficiency
KW - Solar irradiance
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U2 - 10.1007/s10765-017-2238-2
DO - 10.1007/s10765-017-2238-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019133593
SN - 0195-928X
VL - 38
JO - International Journal of Thermophysics
JF - International Journal of Thermophysics
IS - 7
M1 - 103
ER -
