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Panchromatic engineering for dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Sophie Wenger

The dye-sensitized mesoscopic solar cell has been intensively investigated as a promising photovoltaic cell. Its ecological and economical fabrication processes make it attractive and credible alternative to conventional photovoltaic systems. In contrast t ...

2011

Coupled Optical and Electronic Modeling of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells for Steady-State Parameter Extraction

Michael Graetzel, Guido Rothenberger, Sophie Wenger, Matthias Schmid

The design and development of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is currently often realized on an empirical basis. In view of assisting in this optimization process, we present the framework of a model which consists in a coupled optical and electrical mod ...

American Chemical Society2011

Efficient Electron Transfer and Sensitizer Regeneration in Stable π-Extended Tetrathiafulvalene-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Robin Humphry-Baker, Joël Teuscher, Davide Di Censo, Sophie Wenger, Qianli Chen

The development of metal-free organic sensitizers is a key issue in dye-sensitized solar cell research. We report successful photovoltaic conversion with a new class of stable tetrathiafulvalene derivatives, showing surprising electrochemical and kinetic p ...

American Chemical Society2010

Strategies to Optimizing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells : Organic Sensitizers, Tandem Device Structures, and Numerical Device Modeling

Sophie Wenger

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) constitute a novel class of hybrid organic-inorganic solar cells. At the heart of the device is a mesoporous film of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, which are coated with a monolayer of dye sensitive to the visible ...

EPFL2010

D-π-A Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Linear vs Branched Oligothiophenes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mingkui Wang, Sophie Wenger, Amaresh Mishra

Two donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) dyes, coded as L-3T-DPA 1 and B-5T-DPA 2, were synthesized for application in dye-sensitized solar cells. These D-π-A sensitizers use diphenylamine as donor, an oligothiophene as π-bridge, and cyanoacrylic acid as an acceptor g ...

American Chemical Society2010

Tuning the Energy Level of Organic Sensitizers for High-Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Peng Wang, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Sophie Wenger

Cost-effective organic sensitizers will play a pivotal role in the future large-scale production and application of dye-sensitized solar cells. Here we report two new organic D-π-A dyes featuring electron-rich 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene- and 2,2′-bis(3,4-e ...

2009

Fabrication and performance of a monolithic dye-sensitized TiO2/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film tandem solar cell

Michael Graetzel, Sophie Wenger

Tandem solar cells using different bandgap absorbers allow efﬁcient photovoltaic conversion in a wide range of the solar spectrum. The optical gaps of the dye-sensitized solar cell and the Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cell are ideal for application in double-junctio ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2009

CuIn(1-x)Ga(x)Se2 photovoltaic devices for tandem solar cell application

Sophie Wenger

CuIn1-xGaxSe2 (CIGS) solar cells show a good spectral response in a wide range of the solar spectrum and the bandgap of CIGS can be adjusted from 1.0 eV to 1.7 eV by increasing the gallium-to-indium ratio of the absorber. While the bandgaps of Ga-rich CIGS ...

2009

Employ a bisthienothiophene linker to construct an organic chromophore for efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Peng Wang, Yu Bai, Sophie Wenger

We employed the bisthienothiophene conjugated linker along with a hydrophobic triphenylamine electron-donor and a hydrophilic cyanoacrylic acid electron-acceptor to construct a high molar extinction coefficient organic photosensitizer, exhibiting a power c ...

2009

“Brick and Mortar” Strategy for the Formation of Highly Crystalline Mesoporous Titania Films from Nanocrystalline Building Blocks

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Sophie Wenger

We present a novel “brick and mortar” strategy for creating highly efficient transparent TiO2 coatings for photocatalytic and photovoltaic applications. Our approach is based on the fusion of preformed titania nanocrystalline “bricks” through surfactant-te ...

2009