The study of marine microlagae chlorophyll as dye for hybrid solar cell

Abstract

The solar electricity is presently a rapidly growing but often relatively expensive renewable energy form. Recently however, new molecular photovoltaic (PV) materials have been developed, which could enable a production of low-cost solar cells in the future. To address the latter issues, the development of chlorophyll from marine microalgae based on hybrid solar cell (HSC) with nano structured oxide and conjugated polymer were investigated. Chlorophyll (CHLO) dye from marine microalgae (Chlorella s.p.) has been extracted and their optical properties were study using fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-VIS).