Application of Metal-Phthalocyanines in Sensor and Solar Cells

The needs of cost effective electronic devices in both production process and consumer market price has opened a great chance for organic electronics to emerge as a promising field to be studied in both research and industrial fields. Such opportunity has brought the use of organic compound from metal-phthalocyanines (MPc's) derivatives in this work for sensors and solar cells fabrications. Soluble MPc's such as NiTsPc and CuTsPc have been used in electrochemical sensor. The ITO/MPc solution/ITO chemical cells has been made and characterized in the temperature range of 25-85 ºC. Good response/recovery and small hysteresis have been attained. The proposed sensor is aimed to evolve towards highly sensitive organic temperature sensor in a specific temperature range. At the same time, a thin film device ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:VOPcPhO/Al bulk heterojunction solar cells has been fabricated. A broad absorption over the whole visible range (450-750 nm) is achieved and the maximum power conversation efficiency up to 1.09% has been recorded. The cell in fresh and aged condition has also been used in light sensing study, and showed a good responsivity toward the light intensity.

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Shahino Mah Abdullah was born in Johor, Malaysia. He received his early educations from Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Kapal, and Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tanjung Datuk in Pengerang, Johor. Then he further the study in University of Malaya and obtained BSc.(Hons) in Physics. Currently, he is PhD candidate at the same university.