Recent Advances in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Abstract

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are an effective alternative for delivering clean energy from the sun compared to the most widely deployed technologies based upon semiconductor photovoltaics [...]

Self-Assembled Materials Incorporating Functional Porphyrins and Carbon Nanoplatforms as Building Blocks for Photovoltaic Energy Applications

“…These thin films are chemically or physically deposited on low-cost substrates such as glass creating a cheaper cell with similar efficiencies to the first generation cells (Soteris, 2018). The third generation is a step beyond the singlejunction cells that include not only multijunction cells but also polymer and organic and dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs) (Dragonetti and Colombo, 2021).…”

Theoretical insights into the photovoltaic properties of ruthenium(ii) bipyridyl photosensitizers through variation of the anchoring groups

“…8,9 Sensitizers of polypyridyl complexes have the formula ML 2 (X) 2 , where M is the metallic center, such as Re(I), Ru(II) or Os(II), L is related to 4,4 0 -dicarboxy-2,2 0 -bipyridine ligands, and X is usually a thiocyanate (SCN À ) ligand. [10][11][12][13] Among all, ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes are known to exhibit extraordinary optical and electronic properties; for example, the black dye, 14 N3, 15 and N719 16 represent the best efficiency. The great interest in these complexes corresponds to their additional and anchoring ligands, which are responsible for the attachment to the semiconductor (typically TiO 2 or ZnO) and absorption of light.…”

A double co-sensitization strategy using heteroleptic transition metal ferrocenyl dithiocarbamate phenanthrolene-dione for enhancing the performance of N719-based DSSCs

“…3 Hence, aer the pioneering work by Grätzel et al in 1991, during the past twenty years, DSSCs had become the alluring class of devices due to their ease of fabrication with excellent incident photo conversion efficiency, charge transfer exibility, transparency, and colour properties. [4][5][6][7] A typical DSSC set-up is designed using a photo-anode fabricated using an appropriate light harvester coated over a suitable semiconducting material, especially nanocrystalline TiO 2 , a counter electrode, and a redox mediator. 8 The most important component of any typical DSSC set-up is the photosensitizer and amongst which the Ru(II) polypyridyl sensitizer, especially state-of-the-art di-tetrabutylammonium cis-bis-(isothiocyanato)-bis-(2,2 ′ -bipyridyl-4,4 ′ -dicarboxylato) ruthenium(II) (N719) dye exhibited certied photovoltaic efficiency of 11%.…”

“…3 Hence, after the pioneering work by Grätzel et al in 1991, during the past twenty years, DSSCs had become the alluring class of devices due to their ease of fabrication with excellent incident photo conversion efficiency, charge transfer flexibility, transparency, and colour properties. 4–7 A typical DSSC set-up is designed using a photo-anode fabricated using an appropriate light harvester coated over a suitable semiconducting material, especially nanocrystalline TiO 2 , a counter electrode, and a redox mediator. 8…”