Metal-free organic dyes derived from triphenylethylene for dye-sensitized solar cells: tuning of the performance by phenothiazine and carbazole

…, X Zhang, DB Kuang, Y Zhang, S Liu, J Xu

Index: Chen, Chengjian; Liao, Jin-Yun; Chi, Zhenguo; Xu, Bingjia; Zhang, Xiqi; Kuang, Dai-Bin; Zhang, Yi; Liu, Siwei; Xu, Jiarui Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 , vol. 22, # 18 p. 8994 - 9005

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Abstract

Four novel D–D–π–A configuration metal-free organic dyes (C3, P2, C2 and P3) with triphenylethylene phenothiazine moieties or triphenylethylene carbazole moieties as additional electron donors for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been synthesized. The cells based on C3, P2, C2 and P3 dyes with efficiencies of 2.14%, 2.69%, 5.51% and 6.55%, respectively, are obtained. The P3 based cell exhibits the highest efficiency of 6.55 ...