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- Title
Theoretical, structural, and electronic analyses of pyridin-based dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells applications.
- Authors
Dhivya, K. S.; Senthilkumar, C.; Karthika, K.; Srinivasan, P.
- Abstract
Context: The new series of donor-π-acceptor dyes have been designed using pyridine derivatives as a donor group and thienothiophene as a π-spacer group, which were linked via 10 acceptor groups. The highest occupied molecular orbital energies range from − 6.177 to − 5.786 eV, whereas the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energies range from − 2.181 to − 3.664 eV. A6 dye has smaller energy gap, lower hardness, higher electrophilicity index, and good photovoltaic performance than other sensitizers. The lowest dihedral angle is observed in A1, A2, A6, A7, and A8 which are appropriate for intramolecular charge transfer between the molecules. The A8 has higher light harvesting efficiency, which increases the photovoltaic efficiency of the designed dye. The A6, A7, and A8 dyes spend less time in the excited state, which means they emit photons more efficiently than other dyes. The interaction between donor to π-spacer (red line) parts of the dyes has the bonding interaction (positive), and π-spacer to acceptor (blue line) parts of the dyes have the bonding and antibonding (negative) behaviours. The dyes A5 and A9 have 305.79 and 357.71 times higher β0 values than urea (0.781 × 10−30 esu) molecules. The spectral properties of the A6 dye strongly affect the structural modification. Methods: The density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) approach B3LYP/6-311G (d,p) basic set were used to optimize the designed dyes. All the calculations are performed using Gauss view 6.0 and Gaussian 09 software. The density of state spectrum is plotted using Gauss sum 2.6.
- Subjects
DYE-sensitized solar cells; PHOTOVOLTAIC power systems; FRONTIER orbitals; INTRAMOLECULAR charge transfer; DENSITY functionals; GAUSSIAN sums; PYRIDINE derivatives
- Publication
Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
1610-2940
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00894-024-06002-2