New organic sensitizers using 4-(cyanomethyl)benzoic acid as an acceptor group for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

作者: Akhil Gupta , Vanessa Armel , Wanchun Xiang , Ante Bilic , Richard A. Evans

DOI: 10.1016/J.DYEPIG.2014.08.023

关键词: Short circuitTitanium dioxidePhotocurrentPhotochemistryDye-sensitized solar cellThiophenePhenyl groupBenzoic acidChemistryAcceptor

摘要: Abstract Two design elements for donor-acceptor organic dyes used in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are presented. 4-(Cyanomethyl)benzoic acid was as an acceptor group and compared to the commonly cyanoacrylic a pair of otherwise structurally equivalent sensitizers. The 4-(cyanomethyl)benzoic based showed significantly improved photovoltaic performance when tested DSSCs. Furthermore, it shown that replacement bridging para -phenyl with thiophene triarylamino-oligothiophene-based sensitizers resulted significant spectral red-shift device DSSCs were constructed using sensitizer embodying both features show increase electron lifetime fabricated conventional sensitizer. most promising novel incorporating displayed power conversion efficiency 6.37%, short circuit photocurrent density 11.63 mA cm −2 , open-circuit voltage 0.754 V fill factor 0.73.

参考文章(27)
Yan Hao, Xichuan Yang, Jiayan Cong, Haining Tian, Anders Hagfeldt, Licheng Sun, Efficient near infrared D–π–A sensitizers with lateral anchoring group for dye-sensitized solar cells Chemical Communications. pp. 4031- 4033 ,(2009) , 10.1039/B908396K
Brian O'Regan, Michael Grätzel, A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films Nature. ,vol. 353, pp. 737- 740 ,(1991) , 10.1038/353737A0
Frank Würthner, Rüdiger Wortmann, Ralf Matschiner, Katarzyna Lukaszuk, Klaus Meerholz, Yessika DeNardin, Reinhard Bittner, Christoph Bräuchle, Rüdiger Sens, Merocyanine Dyes in the Cyanine Limit: A New Class of Chromophores for Photorefractive Materials Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. ,vol. 36, pp. 2765- 2768 ,(1997) , 10.1002/ANIE.199727651
A. C. Fisher, L. M. Peter, E. A. Ponomarev, A. B. Walker, K. G. U. Wijayantha, Intensity Dependence of the Back Reaction and Transport of Electrons in Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline TiO2 Solar Cells Journal of Physical Chemistry B. ,vol. 104, pp. 949- 958 ,(2000) , 10.1021/JP993220B
N.W Duffy, L.M Peter, R.M.G Rajapakse, K.G.U Wijayantha, A novel charge extraction method for the study of electron transport and interfacial transfer in dye sensitised nanocrystalline solar cells Electrochemistry Communications. ,vol. 2, pp. 658- 662 ,(2000) , 10.1016/S1388-2481(00)00097-7
Wangdong Zeng, Yiming Cao, Yu Bai, Yinghui Wang, Yushuai Shi, Min Zhang, Fangfang Wang, Chunyue Pan, Peng Wang, Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with an Organic Photosensitizer Featuring Orderly Conjugated Ethylenedioxythiophene and Dithienosilole Blocks Chemistry of Materials. ,vol. 22, pp. 1915- 1925 ,(2010) , 10.1021/CM9036988
Yasuo Chiba, Ashraful Islam, Yuki Watanabe, Ryoichi Komiya, Naoki Koide, Liyuan Han, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Conversion Efficiency of 11.1% Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. ,vol. 45, pp. L638- L640 ,(2006) , 10.1143/JJAP.45.L638
Akhil Gupta, Vanessa Armel, Wanchun Xiang, Giovanni Fanchini, Scott E Watkins, Douglas R MacFarlane, Udo Bach, Richard A Evans, None, The effect of direct amine substituted push–pull oligothiophene chromophores on dye-sensitized and bulk heterojunction solar cells performance Tetrahedron. ,vol. 69, pp. 3584- 3592 ,(2013) , 10.1016/J.TET.2013.02.040
Haining Tian, Xichuan Yang, Ruikui Chen, Rong Zhang, Anders Hagfeldt, Licheng Sun, Effect of Different Dye Baths and Dye-Structures on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Triphenylamine Dyes Journal of Physical Chemistry C. ,vol. 112, pp. 11023- 11033 ,(2008) , 10.1021/JP800953S
Marappan Velusamy, K. R. Justin Thomas, Jiann T. Lin, Ying-Chan Hsu, Kuo-Chuan Ho, Organic Dyes Incorporating Low-Band-Gap Chromophores for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Organic Letters. ,vol. 7, pp. 1899- 1902 ,(2005) , 10.1021/OL050417F