Spectroscopic Properties and Micro-Structure for Promising Solar Cell Application of Ruthenium-Diphenyl Carbazide (RuDPC) Complex

Abstract

The variation in the modes of a new ruthenium diphenyl carbazide complex (RuDPC) during changing of ruthenium (Ru) concentration within 0.01 ≤ X ≤ 0.09 in diphenyl carbazide (DPC) are investigated using IR analysis. Variation in some IR spectroscopic parameters during the increase of Ru content in pure DPC has been recorded. The variation in both the relaxation time and the rotational energy barrier for RuDPC samples at the mode 505 cm-1 supports a change that occurs at X ≈ 0.05. Micro-structure of RuDPC samples was studied by X-ray analysis and scanning electron microscopy. Moreover, SEM pictures and EDAX measurements were made revealing the strong Ru-signals indicating the presence of Ru and their distributions in the DPC matrix. Also results indicated that Ru inclusion in DPC matrix changes its morphology with a uniform distribution of Ru. Besides, X-ray diffraction patterns revealed RuDPC samples are represented by a mixture of amorphous and crystalline structure, wherever the phase-nature crystallization of RuDPC samples reinforced when the concentration of Ru is augmented. The crystal structure is changed to tetragonal structure after addition of ruthenium metal to pure orthorhombic DPC matrix. The spectroscopic properties of RuDPC complex is seemed to be dependent on its characteristics to the effect of radiation (FTIR), as a solar material in the application of this field; due to DPC is a photosensitive material, so that there are a number of optical applications which depend upon optically induced structure transition energy states for the complex.