Shahroosvand H, Abaspour S, Pashaei B, Bideh BN. On how ancillary ligand substitution affects the charge carrier dynamics in dye-sensitized solar cells.
RSC Adv 2018;
8:19465-19469. [PMID:
35540976 PMCID:
PMC9080644 DOI:
10.1039/c8ra02968g]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 05/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
With respect to N3, a champion sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), S3 which contained a phenTz (1,10-phenanthroline 5-tetrazole) ancillary ligand showed outstanding improvements in molar extinction coefficient (ε) from 10 681.8 to 12 954.5 M cm−1 as well as 0.92% and 0.9% increases in power conversion efficiency (PCE) and incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency (IPCE), reaching 8.46% and 76.5%, respectively. To find the origin of the high performance of the DSSC based on a phenTz ancillary ligand, transient absorption spectroscopy (TA) was carried out and indicated that the rate of the regeneration reaction is about 100 times faster than the rate of recombination with the dye which is very exciting and surely a good reason to promote the phenTz ligand as a promising ancillary ligand in DSSCs.
With respect to N3, S3 which contained a phenTz (1,10-phenanthroline 5-tetrazole) ancillary ligand showed outstanding improvements in molar extinction coefficient (ε) as well as increases in power conversion efficiency (PCE) and incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency (IPCE).![]()
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