Background

As the technology continues to develop, people are pursuing renewable energy sources to satisfy the need of human growth. According to scientific research, the sun provides 1TW solar power to the earth which makes solar power the potential direction for the solving energy problem. Our project is to develop  energy efficient dye solar cells for analysis and comparison to the conventional photovoltaic silicon cell. The main technical challenges are be the process of preparation and the dye selection to make cell with different properties. The major task is to find the appropriate dye substance that could produce a high efficiency dye-synthesized solar cell. The dye solar cell benefits, in general low manufacturing costs, will be compared to those of the photovoltaic silicon cell.