Effect of five-membered heteroaromatic linkers to the performance of phenothiazine-based dye-sensitized solar cells

Se Hun Kim; Hyun Woo Kim; Chun Sakong; Jinwoong Namgoong; Se Woong Park; Min Jae Ko; Choong Hyuk Lee; Wan In Lee; Jae Pil Kim

doi:10.1021/ol2023517

Effect of five-membered heteroaromatic linkers to the performance of phenothiazine-based dye-sensitized solar cells

Org Lett. 2011 Nov 4;13(21):5784-7. doi: 10.1021/ol2023517. Epub 2011 Oct 4.

Authors

Se Hun Kim¹, Hyun Woo Kim, Chun Sakong, Jinwoong Namgoong, Se Woong Park, Min Jae Ko, Choong Hyuk Lee, Wan In Lee, Jae Pil Kim

Affiliation

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea.

PMID: 21970651
DOI: 10.1021/ol2023517

Abstract

Phenothiazine derivatives with various conjugated linkers (furan, thiophene, and 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) were synthesized and used in dye-sensitized solar cells to study the effect of conjugated linkers on device performance. Among them, one with furan as a conjugated linker showed a solar energy-to-electricity conversion efficiency (η) of 6.58%, an improvement of over 24% compared with the T2-1 reference cells' 5.29% under AM 1.5 G irradiation.