Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using Solid Polymer Electrolyte

Out of the long list of various types of solar cells available on the market, dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are proposed as an alternative to costly crystalline solar cell. In DSSCs, so far high efficiency (more than 11%) has been obtained only by using volatile liquid electrolyte, which suffers many disadvantages, such as corrosion, leakage and evaporation while DSSCs using polymer electrolyte seems novel alternative which fulfill the requirements necessary to develop an efficient DSSCs. In present communication the detail electrical properties as well as DSSC performance of polymer electrolyte using polyvinyl alcohol based polymer electrolyte are given in detail.