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Dye-sensitized solar cells using cobalt electrolytes: the influence of porosity and pore size to achieve high-efficiency

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Aswani Yella, Pascal Comte, Sadig Aghazada, Simon Mathew

Diffusion impediments in redox shuttles are a major limitation to realizing high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) in dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using cobalt complexes. Mass transport limitations are strongly dependent on the pore size and the po ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Electron Kinetics in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Employing Anatase with (101) and (001) Facets

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Pascal Comte, Ladislav Kavan, Thomas Moehl, Aswani Yella

Two phase-pure nanocrystalline anatase materials differing in the exposed crystal facets (001) or (101) are studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and by transient photovoltage and photocurrent decay in dye sensitized solar cells. A larger chemi ...

Elsevier2015

New pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine-based sensitizers for efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Pascal Comte, Thomas Moehl, Mateusz Barnaba Wielopolski, Jiabao Yang

A series of new pyrido[3,4-b]pyrazine-based organic sensitizers (PP-I and APP-I–IV) containing different donors and p-spacers have been synthesized and employed in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The absorption spectra properties of dyes are analysed b ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Influence of the Donor Size in D-pi-A Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Pascal Comte, Thomas Moehl, Chenyi Yi, Joël Teuscher, Thomas Wesley Holcombe, Jiabao Yang, Yongjoo Kim

We report two new molecularly engineered push-pull dyes, i.e., YA421 and YA422, based on substituted quinoxaline as a pi-conjugating linker and bulky-indoline moiety as donor and compared with reported IQ4 dye. Benefitting from increased steric hindrance w ...

American Chemical Society2014

Acetylene-bridged dyes with high open circuit potential for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Pascal Comte, Thomas Moehl, Fabrizio Giordano, Aswani Yella, Yongjoo Kim, Chi-Lun Mai

A series of simple metal-free organic dyes MS1-MS3 have been designed and synthesized, and their optical, electrochemical, and photovoltaic properties were investigated. The molecular structures are based on a push-pull framework with a triphenylamine, nap ...

RSC Publishing2014

Thiadiazolo[3,4-c]pyridine Acceptor Based Blue Sensitizers for High Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Carole Graetzel, Robin Humphry-Baker, Pascal Comte, Thomas Moehl, Chenyi Yi, Joël Teuscher, Jiabao Yang

Two new [1,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-c]pyridine-containing D-A-pi-A organic dyes (PT-1 and PT-2) have been designed and synthesized for utilization in dye-sensitized solar cells. PT-2 sensitizer, which was synthesized by incorporating the 4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4 ...

American Chemical Society2014

Evaluating the critical thickness of TiO2 layer on insulating mesoporous templates for efficient current collection in dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Pascal Comte, Chenyi Yi, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

In this paper, we present a way of utilizing thin and conformal overlayer of titanium dioxide on insulating mesoporous template as a photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC). Different thicknesses of TiO2 ranging from 1 nm to 15 nm are deposited on ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Low temperature crystalline titanium dioxide by atomic layer deposition for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Pascal Comte, Aswani Yella, Morgan Mertens Stefik, Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Leo-Philipp Heiniger

Low temperature processing of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) is crucial to enable commercialization with low-cost, plastic substrates. Prior studies have focused on mechanical compression of premade particles on plastic or glass substrates, however, this ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Avoiding Diffusion Limitations in Cobalt(III/II)-Tris(2,2'-Bipyridine)-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Tuning the Mesoporous TiO2 Film Properties

Michael Graetzel, Pascal Comte, Chenyi Yi, Hoi Nok Tsao

Dye-sensitized solar cells based on electrolytes containing cobalt complexes as redox shuttles typically suffer a major limitation in terms of slow diffusion of those couples through the mesoporous TiO2 film. This results in a drop of the photocurrent dens ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

High-voltage (1.8 V) tandem solar cell system using a GaAs/AlXGa(1-X)As graded solar cell and dye-sensitised solar cells with organic dyes having different absorption spectra

Michael Graetzel, Jun Ho Yum, Paul Liska, Péter Kalman Péchy, Pascal Comte

Stacked multijunction (tandem) solar cells have been prepared by mechanically stacking dye-sensitised solar cells (DSCs) and a GaAs/AlXGa(1-X)As graded solar cell (GGC) as the top and bottom cells, respectively. Three organic dyes with different absorption ...

2011