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Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient lighting

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Paul Liska, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Fabrizio Giordano, Joël Teuscher, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yasemin Saygili, Marina Freitag

Solar cells that operate efficiently under indoor lighting are of great practical interest as they can serve as electric power sources for portable electronics and devices for wireless sensor networks or the Internet of Things. Here, we demonstrate a dye-s ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Low-temperature Fabrication of Highly-Efficient, Optically-Transparent (FTO-free) Graphene Cathode for Co-Mediated Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Acetonitrile-free Electrolyte Solution

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Paul Liska, Ladislav Kavan

Propionitrile electrolyte solutions mixed with sulfolane or with 1-ethyl 3-methyl imidazolium tetracyanoborate (ionic liquid) are optimized for Co(bpy)(3)(3+)/Co(bpy)(3)(2+)-tmediated DSCs working at low illumination intensity. Highly-active cathode cataly ...

Elsevier2016

Optically Transparent FTO-Free Cathode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Paul Liska, Ladislav Kavan

The woven fabric containing electrochemically platinized tungsten wire is an affordable flexible cathode for liquid-junction dye-sensitized solar cells with the I-3(-)/I- redox mediator and electrolyte solution consisting of ionic liquids and propionitrile ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Voltage enhancement in dye-sensitized solar cell using (001)-oriented anatase TiO2 nanosheets

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Paul Liska, Ladislav Kavan, Elham Ghadiri

A nanocrystalline TiO2 (anatase) nanosheet ex- posing mainly the (001) crystal faces was tested as photo- anode material in dye-sensitized solar cells. The nanosheets were prepared by hydrothermal growth in HF medium. Good-quality thin films were deposited ...

Springer2012

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

Utilization of Direct and Diffuse Sunlight in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell - Silicon Photovoltaic Hybrid Concentrator System

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Paul Liska

The concept of a tandem hybrid concentrator solar module was demonstrated from a dye-sensitized TiO2 solar cell (DSSCs) and a silicon p-n junction solar cell. The test system employed DSSC and Si cells with indoor AM1.5G efficiencies of 9.1 and 18.1%, resp ...

2011

A round robin study of flexible large-area roll-to-roll processed polymer solar cell modules

Michael Graetzel, Paul Liska

A round robin for the performance of roll-to-roll coated flexible large-area polymer solar-cell modules involving 18 different laboratories in Northern America, Europe and Middle East is presented. The study involved the performance measurement of the devi ...

2009

Fabrication of thin film dye sensitized solar cells with solar to electric power conversion efficiency over 10%

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Liska, Carole Graetzel, Pascal Comte

Techniques of TiO2 film fabrication for dye-sensitized solar cells having a conversion efficiency of global air mass 1.5 (AM 1.5, 1000 W/m(2)) solar light to electric power over 10% are reported. Newly implemented fabrication technologies consist of pre-tr ...

2008

High-conversion-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells with a novel indoline dye

Michael Graetzel, Paul Liska, Péter Kalman Péchy, Pascal Comte

An indoline dye (D205), the synthesis method of which is disclosed in this report, gave high-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells (9.52%) using an anti-aggregation reagent (chenodeoxycholic acid). ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2008

Bifacial dye-sensitized solar cells based on an ionic liquid electrolyte

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Paul Liska, Pascal Comte

Solar energy is a promising solution to global energy-related problems because it is clean, inexhaustible and readily available. However, the deployment of conventional photovoltaic cells based on silicon is still limited by cost, so alternative, more cost ...

Nature Publishing Group2008