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The development of new light harvesting materials is a key issue for the progress of the research on organic & hybrid photovoltaics. Here, we report a new class of organic sensitizers based on the bi-fluorenylidene moiety as p-linker within the donor–p-linker–acceptor (D–p–A) scheme. The new dyes are endowed with electron donor and electron acceptor units at strategic positions in order to improve their electronic and light-harvesting properties. The comprehensive study of these compounds through the use of different experimental and theoretical techniques, provides an in-depth understanding of their electronic and photophysical properties, and reveal their interest as photovoltaic materials.
Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Narges Yaghoobi Nia, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Hong Zhang, Dan Ren, Linfeng Pan, Paramvir Ahlawat, Masaud Hassan S Almalki, Viacheslav Bolnykh, Anurag Krishna, Tzu-Sen Su