Issue 33, 2011
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Modifying organic phenoxazinedyes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells†

Haining Tian,a   Ilkay Bora,ac   Xiao Jiang,b   Erik Gabrielsson,a   Karl Martin Karlsson,a   Anders Hagfeldtb  and  Licheng Sun*ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Center of Molecular Devices, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: lichengs@kth.se

b Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Center of Molecular Devices, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

c Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

d State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center for Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), Dalian, China

Abstract

Four organic dyes bearing the phenoxazine chromophore have been synthesized and applied in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The effect of different dye structures on the performance of the DSCs was investigated systematically with photophysical, photovoltaic as well as photoelectrochemical methods. Due to the slow recombination process between injected electrons and electrolyte, the IB3 dye with two 2,4-dibutoxyphenyl units showed the best efficiency of 7.0% under 100 mW cm−2 light illumination in the liquid state-DSCs. Moreover, the phenoxazine dyes-based solid state-DSCs were fabricated for the first time. With the IB4 dye, a higher efficiency of 3.2% has been achieved under the same light intensity.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1JM12071A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 May 2011
Accepted
09 Jun 2011
First published
21 Jul 2011

J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 12462-12472

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Modifying organic phenoxazine dyes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

H. Tian, I. Bora, X. Jiang, E. Gabrielsson, K. M. Karlsson, A. Hagfeldt and L. Sun, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 12462 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM12071A

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