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Chemical Communications

New sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells featuring a carbon-bridged phenylenevinylene†

Xiaozhang Zhu,ab   Hayato Tsuji,*ac   Aswani Yella,d   Anne-Sophie Chauvin,d   Michael Grätzel*d  and  Eiichi Nakamura*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
E-mail: tsuji@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, nakamura@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Fax: +81-3-5800-6889
Tel: +81-3-5841-4356

b Organic Solids Laboratory, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Fax: +86-10-62559373
Tel: +86-10-62639355

c JST-PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Japan

d Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Science and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 6, Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail: michael.graetzel@epfl.ch
Fax: +41-21-693-6100
Tel: +41-21-693-3112

Abstract

We demonstrate that a carbon-bridged phenylenevinylene (CPV)-linked dye serves as a novel and efficient sensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells. The cells show IPCE values of greater than 90%, PCEs of up to 7.12%, and high open circuit voltages reaching close to 0.8 V based on the iodide/triiodide electrolyte.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC37124C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
01 Oct 2012
Accepted
19 Nov 2012
First published
04 Dec 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 582-584

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New sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells featuring a carbon-bridged phenylenevinylene

X. Zhu, H. Tsuji, A. Yella, A. Chauvin, M. Grätzel and E. Nakamura, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 582 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37124C

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