Research Article

Cyanidin-Based Novel Organic Sensitizer for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: DFT/TDDFT Study

Table 1

Summary of DFT computational calculation of cyanidin, BTBA, and P01-1 constituents in ethanol with geometry optimization.

SensitizerWith geometry optimization
HOMO (eV)LUMO (eV)Energy gap (eV)

Cyanidin−6.18−3.392.79
BTBA−6.33−2.553.78
P01-1−6.18−3.662.52