Increased photocurrent in a tandem dye-sensitized solar cell by modifications in push-pull dye-design

C J Wood; G H Summers; E A Gibson

doi:10.1039/c4cc10230d

Increased photocurrent in a tandem dye-sensitized solar cell by modifications in push-pull dye-design

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Mar 4;51(18):3915-8. doi: 10.1039/c4cc10230d.

Authors

C J Wood¹, G H Summers, E A Gibson

Affiliation

¹ School of Inorganic Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.

PMID: 25658068
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc10230d

Abstract

Donor-π-acceptor photosensitizers for NiO photocathodes that exhibit a broad spectral response across the visible region are presented. These enabled an increase in the photocurrent density of p-type dye-sensitized solar cells to 8.2 mA cm(-2) and a tandem cell to be assembled which generated a photocurrent density of 5.15 mA cm(-2).