Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Mathematical Modelling and Materials Design and Optimization presents the latest information as edited from leaders in the field. It covers advances in DSSC design, fabrication and mathematical modelling and optimization, providing a comprehensive coverage of various DSSC advances that includes different system scales, from electronic to macroscopic level, and a consolidation of the results with fundamentals. The book is extremely useful as a monograph for graduate students and researchers, but is also a comprehensive, general reference on state-of-the-art techniques in modelling, optimization and design of DSSCs.

• Includes chapter contributions from worldwide leaders in the field
• Offers first-principles of modelling solar cells with different system scales, from the electronic to macroscopic level
• References, in a single resource, state-of-the-art techniques in modelling, optimization and design of DSSC

Engineers and researchers within the energy engineering field and all engineers dealing with mathematical models. Suitable for energy and mathematical modeling markets

Preface
Masoud Soroush and Kenneth Lau
1. Overview of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Kenneth K. S. Lau and Masoud Soroush
2. Mathematical Modeling of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Jiawei Gong and Sumathy Krishnan
3. Insights into Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells from Macroscopic-Scale First-Principles Mathematical Modeling
Masoud Soroush and Kenneth K.S. Lau
4. Charge Separation: From the Topology of Molecular Electronic Transitions to the Dye/Semiconductor Interfacial Energetics and Kinetics
Thibaud Etienne and Mariachiara Pastore
5. Linear-Response and Real-Time, Time-Dependent DFT for Predicting Optoelectronic Properties of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Sarah I. Allec, Anshuman Kumar, and Bryan M. Wong
6. Photovoltaic Performance of Natural Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study
Wichien Sang–aroon, Sarawut Tontapha, and Vittaya Amornkitbamrung
7. Beyond the Limitations of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Roger Jiang, Hannes Michaels, Nick Vlachopoulos, and Marina Freitag
8. Upconversion-Enhanced Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Deyang Li and Guanying Chen
9. Recent Advances on Porphyrin Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Jonnadula. V. S. Krishna, Madoori Mrinalini, Seelam Prasanthkumar, and Lingamallu Giribabu
10. Insights into Graphene-based Materials as Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Liviu Cosmin Cotet,Carmen Ioana Fort, Lucian Cristian Pop, Monica Baia, and Lucian Baia
11. Economical and Highly Efficient Non-Metal Counter Electrode Materials for Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Ganapathy Veerappan, Easwaramoorthi Ramasamy, and Bheesetti Gowreeswari
12. Potential Materials for Fabrication of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Geetam Richhariya and Anil Kumar