A. ABOULOUARD, A. JOUAITI, B. ELHADADI, M. ADAR
Abstract. A computer simulation and calculation method have been proposed in this work to provide the effect of temperature on dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs).the result shows that the temperature has an effect on the open circuit voltage and efficiency.
Keywords
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, Simulation, Temperature
Published online 12/10/2016, 4 pages
Copyright © 2016 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: A. ABOULOUARD, A. JOUAITI, B. ELHADADI, M. ADAR, ‘Theoretical modelling of the temperature effect in dye sensitized solar cells’, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp 234-237, 2016
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291197-58
The article was published as article 58 of the book Dielectric Materials and Applications
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