High efficiency and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with an organic chromophore featuring a binary pi-conjugated spacer

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Apr 28:(16):2198-200. doi: 10.1039/b822325d. Epub 2009 Mar 2.

Abstract

We employed a binary spacer of orderly conjugated 3,4-ethyldioxythiophene and thienothiophene to construct a wide-spectral response organic chromophore for dye-sensitized solar cells, exhibiting a high power conversion efficiency of 9.8% measured under irradiation of 100 mW cm(-2) air mass 1.5 global (AM1.5G) sunlight and an excellent stability.