Dye mixture promoted light harvesting for organic dye-sensitized solar cells using triphenylamine dyes with various numbers of anchoring groups |
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| Institution: | 1. Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMOL), Universidad de Valencia, Calle Catedrático José Beltrán, 2, 46980 Paterna, Spain;2. Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 143025 Skolkovo, Moscow Region, Russia;3. Canatu Oy, Konalankuja 5, FI-00390, Helsinki Finland;4. Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, School of Science, P.O. Box 15100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland;5. St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251, St. Petersburg, Russia;1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India;2. Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India;3. National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India;4. National Centre of Excellence in Technologies for Internal Security, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India;1. CAS Key Laboratory of Biomedical Diagnostics, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), 88 Keling Road, Suzhou 215163, China;2. Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China;3. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lafayette College, Easton 18042, PA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Co-sensitizers and co-adsorbents are promising materials to enhance the light harvesting efficiency and reduce the un-expected back transfer reaction (recombination) of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In this study, three sensitizers with triphenylamine as an electron donor, thiophene as a bridge and various numbers of acceptors/anchors cyanoacetic acid (TPA3T1A, TPA3T2A and TPA3T3A) were synthesized, and TPA3T1A and TPA3T2A were used as co-adsorbents with TPA3T3A. The results showed that co-adsorption on the TiO2 surface at the following percentages, TPA3T3A 73%, TPA3T1A 17% and TPA3T2A 10%, resulted in an increase in the photovoltaic performance of the DSSCs from 5.27% to 5.83% compared to that of a single TPA3T3A sensitizer due to the increasing JSC and VOC. This enhancement might be due to improved light absorption and decreasing recombination by the co-sensitizers, TPA3T1A and TPA3T2A, occupying all the empty plases on the TPA3T3A-adsorbed TiO2 surface. |
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| Keywords: | Dye-sensitized solar cell Co-sensitizer Co-adsorption Light harvesting Recombination |
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