Charge Generation in a Dye-Sensitized Solid-State Cell under Different Modes of Illumination
β Scribed by P.M. Sirimanne; T. Shirata; T. Soga; T. Jimbo
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Volume
- 166
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4596
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β¦ Synopsis
A dye-sensitized solid-state cell was fabricated by sandwiching ruthenium bypridyl complex in between porous TiO 2 and CuI 5lms. Cis-dithiocyanate-bis(2,2-bipyridyl -4-4-dicarboxylate) ruthenium (II) exhibited excellent performance among the dyes tested for TiO 2 "dye"CuI cell. Di4erent mechanisms are proposed for charge generation of the cell under di4erent modes of illumination. A high incident photon to current conversion e7ciency was observed under back wall illumination compared to that of front wall illumination. Dye molecules exhibited a relay e4ect under back wall mode illumination at wavelengths shorter than 400 nm.
2002 Elsevier Science (USA)
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This work was funded by the MOLYCELL European project (OFES 03.0681-1). We thank Ilkay Cesar and Robin Humphry-Baker for valuable discussions and Michel Schaer and Libero Zuppiroli from the Laboratory of Optoelectronics of Molecular Materials at EPFL where some of the measurements were performed.