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Optical absorption spectroscopy of the blackberry dye applied in solar cell sensitizers and gamma radiation effects.‎

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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This paper is a part of natural dye solar cell project. The dye extracted from blackberry fruit is successfully used in the ‎fabrication of natural dye sensitized solar cells (NDSSC). Blackberry dye extract is showed to contain anthocyanins which is ‎an excellent light harvesting pigment needed for the generation of charge carriers for the production of electricity. A strong ‎absorbance in the green region (520 nm) is observed for blackberry dye at pH 1. The color intensity of the blackberry dye is ‎decreased with the gamma dose up to 5 kGy and then saturation started. The high absorption range is found in blackberry ‎dye 360-750 nm. The absorption band edge value of the natural dye solutions of the blackberry is found 1.97 eV from the ‎maximum peak position (at wavelength 630 nm). Tauc gap (Eg) of the blackberry dye is found 1.96 eV for direct transition. ‎It is observed that the gamma dose up to 7 kGy showed no significant effect on both absorption edge and Tauc gap of ‎blackberry dye. The particles sizes range of the blackberry dye form the blackness pigment is found to 0.6-3.0 and 0.4-1.0 ‎microns in diameter before and after gamma radiation. The optimum conditions of NDSSC based on this study of Blackberry ‎dye are found that VOC=0.5, JSC =0.7 mA.cm-1, FF=0.5, and η %=0.2.‎

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10.21608/ajnsa.2018.2686.1043

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blackberry, dyes, optical, gamma radiation

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Maged

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Solid State and Electron Accelerators, Research Division, Atomic Energy Authority

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magedali@hotmail.com

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Amin

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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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m.aminsolyman@yahoo.com

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Osman

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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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hmosmank@yahoo.com

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L.A. M.

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Nada

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Department of Solid State and Electron Accelerators, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt

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nadalotfy84@yahoo.com

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51

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3

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874

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2018-07-01

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2018-01-19

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2018-07-01

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130

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138

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1110-0451

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2090-4258

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Arab Journal of Nuclear Sciences and Applications

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22 Jan 2023