Highly Efficient Organic Photosensitizer with Dinaphthylphenylamine Unit as a Donor for DSSCs

• DOI: 10.5012/bkcs.2011.32.11.4109
• Publication Date: 2012-01-25T02:28:27Z
• Authors: Seok-Hoon Jang; Kyung-Ho Lee; Sukwon Kim; Jeong-Hun Lee; Chul-Hee Kim
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; 0104 chemical sciences

E-mail: [e-mail] August 29, 2011, Accepted September 19, 2011Key Words : DSSCs, Dye-sensitized solar cells, High efficiency, DinaphthylphenylamineRecently, dye-sensitized cells (DSSCs) have at-tracted great attention because they advantages inconverting energy to electrical at low cost. Oneof the key issues in high performance DSSCs is rationaldesign of photosensitizers, which can exhibit solar-to-energy conversion efficiency. The Ru complex photo-sensitizers such as N3, N719 and Black dye effi-ciencies about 11% under AM 1.5G irradiation.