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    <language>eng</language>
    
      <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
    
    <journalTitle>Material Science Research India</journalTitle>
    
      <issn>0973-3469</issn>
    
    
    <publicationDate>2015-06-06</publicationDate>
    

        <volume>5</volume>

        <issue>2</issue>

 

    <startPage>277</startPage>
    <endPage>282</endPage>

   
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    <publisherRecordId>2019</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Photovoltaic Properties of Some African Dyes</title>

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    <abstract language="eng"><p>Four natural dyes obtained from Bixa orellana, Pterocarpus erinaceus, Sorghum candatum, and Zingber officinale, were used as dye-sensitizers in TiO2 coated plate of a dye sensitized solar cell. The natural dyes actually act as sensitizers. The movement of the electrons across the conduction band of TiO2 electrode produced a potential difference across the plates with an open circuit voltage (Voc) range from 0.2 -0.6 V, and photocurrent 1.7mA recorded. At the introduction of a series resistor of 10 W, the short-circuit voltage and current ranging from 0.18 - 0.56V and 0.06-0.13 mA respectively were obtained for the dyes. The use of mordant (CuSO4) increases the active period of the dyes for more detail measurements. Dye from Bixa orellana gave the best result.</p></abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://www.materialsciencejournal.org/vol5no2/photovoltaic-properties-of-some-african-dyes/</fullTextUrl>




      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword>Light photons</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Mordant</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Natural dyes</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> open-circuit</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> photocurrent</keyword>
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