Dye-sensitized solar cells incorporating a "liquid" hole-transporting material.

Snaith, Henry J; Zakeeruddin, Shaik M; Wang, Qing; Péchy, Péter; Grätzel, Michael · Nano Lett · 2006

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We present the first application of an amorphous "liquid" organic semiconductor in an optoelectronic device, demonstrating that it is highly suited for use as a hole-transporting material in nanostructured dye-sensitized solar cells. For such devices, we obtain power conversion efficiencies of up to 2.4% under simulated air mass 1.5 solar spectrum at 100 mWcm(-2), and incident photon-to-electron quantum efficiencies in excess of 50%.

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