Issue 7, 2016

Solid state p-type dye-sensitized solar cells: concept, experiment and mechanism

Abstract

Solid state p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (p-ssDSCs) have been proposed and fabricated for the first time, using the organic dye P1 as the sensitizer on mesoporous NiO and phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) as the electron conductor. The p-ssDSC has shown an impressive open circuit photovoltage of 620 mV. Femtosecond and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy has given evidence for sub-ps hole injection from the excited P1 to NiO, followed by electron transfer from P1˙ to PCBM.

Graphical abstract: Solid state p-type dye-sensitized solar cells: concept, experiment and mechanism

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Sep 2015
Accepted
01 Oct 2015
First published
01 Oct 2015

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 5080-5085

Author version available

Solid state p-type dye-sensitized solar cells: concept, experiment and mechanism

L. Zhang, G. Boschloo, L. Hammarström and H. Tian, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 5080 DOI: 10.1039/C5CP05247E

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