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Fine-tuning the Electronic Structure of Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
2012
A series of metal-free organic dyes exploiting different combinations of (hetero)cyclic linkers (benzene, thiophene, and thiazole) and bridges (4H-cyclopenta[2,1-b:3,4-b']dithiophene (CPDT) and benzodithiophene (BDT)) as the central pi-spacers were synthesized and characterized. Among them, the sensitizer containing the thiophene and CPDT showed the most broad incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency spectra, resulting in a solar energy conversion efficiency (eta) of 6.6%.
Type
research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000308390000009
Publication date
2012
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Published in
Volume
14
Issue
17
Start page
4330
End page
4333
Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
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February 27, 2013
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