WO2012001033A1 - High efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a mesoporous semi-conductor sensitized with a light-absorbing dye, a counter electrode, and an electrolyte comprising a redox mediator.
- DSC Dye-sensitized solar cells
- DSCs dye-sensitized solar cells
- T/L The T/L " system is limited by its relatively low solution redox potential, its corrosiveness towards metal compounds and by competitive absorption of the light by triiodide.
- the high series resistance of the transparent conductive oxide substrate limits the performance of large area DSCs and modules and one way to reduce the high resistance is to apply current collection metal grids over the substrate.
- the scale up of DSCs and the module stability is therefore limited by the corrosiveness of the iodide/triiodide redox couple towards most metals and sealing materials.
- a general object of the present invention is to overcome at least one of the above-mentioned problems, and to provide a dye-sensitized solar cell having improved life-time and efficiency.
- a dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a mesoporous semi-conductor sensitized with a light-absorbing dye, a counter electrode, and an electrolyte comprising a redox mediator, characterized in that an organic light-absorbing dye is used in combination with a one-electron transfer redox mediator.
- One electron outer sphere redox couples such as cobalt complexes are interesting alternative redox mediators since they show weak visible light absorption and are less aggressive towards metal compounds than iodine.
- the use of one electron redox mediators have been shown to lead to enhanced recombination with electrons in the Ti0 2 conduction band. Recombination of photoinjected electrons with cobalt(III) is , however, anticipated to be slow due to a change in spin upon reduction to cobalt(II).
- the present invention is based on the realization that a highly efficient dye- sensitized solar cell is achieved by combining an organic light-absorbing dye with a one electron transfer redox mediator, thereby avoiding the above-mentioned drawbacks associated iodide/triiodide redox couple.
- organic dyes with high extinction coefficient can advantageously be used instead of standard ruthenium sensitizers to build thin films DSCs in order to overcome mass transport and recombination limitations associated with cobalt polypyridine redox mediators.
- the organic dye may comprise steric groups that suppress recombination between electrons in the semi-conductor and acceptor species in the electrolyte.
- the organic dye may advantageously comprise bulky alkoxy electron-donating substituents.
- the organic dye has the following structure:
- the donor may comprise a triarylamine group having electron donating aromatic substituents Ar and Ar', wherein A may be an electron withdrawing group, and wherein ⁇ may be a series of one or more conjugated units which electronically links the donor and acceptor parts of the dye molecules.
- the Ar and Ar' may be any one of phenyl, thiophene, furan, naphthyl-derivatives and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fused heterocyclic systems and their corresponding oligomeric variants.
- the organic dye may advantageously comprise a triphenylamine (TP A).
- TP A triphenylamine
- the A in the structure above may comprise a carboxylic acid functions such as cyanoacrylic acid and rhodanine-3-acetic acid, or a phosphorous or sulfur based anchoring group, such as in the form of a phosphonate or sulfonate.
- a carboxylic acid functions such as cyanoacrylic acid and rhodanine-3-acetic acid
- a phosphorous or sulfur based anchoring group such as in the form of a phosphonate or sulfonate.
- ⁇ in the above structure, may comprise a combination of 5 or 6- membered unsaturated (hetero)cyclic units containing up to four heteroatoms from group 14- 16 of the periodic table per ring, primarily phenyl, thiophene, furan, pyrrole, thiazole and oxazole, or their fused and polycyclic variants such as thieno[3,2-£]thiophene, dithieno[3,2- £:2',3'- ⁇ i]thiophene, phenothiazine, phenoxazine, 4H-silolo[3,2-£:4,5-£']dithiophene and carbazole.
- hetero unsaturated
- the organic dye may be D29 having the following formula:
- organic dye may be D35 having the following formula:
- the organic dye has an extinction coefficient of at least 70000 M _1 crn ⁇
- the one-electron transfer redox mediator may advantageously be a cobalt complex with a central cobalt atom with organic ligands, such as, for example, a cobalt polypyridine complex.
- the material of the counter electrode comprises platinum
- the material of the counter electrode comprises carbon.
- the mesoporous semiconductor may be Ti0 2 .
- One advantage of using one electron redox couples in DSCs is that the driving force for regeneration is expected to be lower than that for the iodide/triiodide redox shuttle, and the absorption of the dye can therefore be broadened by tuning the HOMO level of the dye.
- the spectral response of TP A based organic sensitizer can be extended by increasing the linker conjugation in between the donor and acceptor groups.
- the current is in addition higher in DSCs employing cobalt redox mediators since the cobalt complexes absorb less light than iodide/triiodide.
- Cobalt polypyridyl complexes are promising alternative redox mediators to the iodide/triiodide redox couple for large scale manufacturing of DSCs since they are less aggressive towards silver contacts and sealing materials.
- the efficiency and stability of modules of DSCs containing cobalt polypyridine redox couples can be increased since the non corrosive nature of the complexes allows the use of current collector metal grids that reduces the high series resistance of the transparent conductive oxide substrate.
- DSCs sensitized with organic dyes employing cobalt polypyridine redox mediators are promising for low light intensity applications since the voltage and efficiency is kept high at lower light intensities.
- Figure la shows a schematic energy diagram for a nanostructured Ti0 2 electrode sensitized with D35 or D29 employing [Co(bpy) 3 ] 2+/3 +, [Co(dmb) 3 ] 2+/3+ ,
- FIGS 2a-f showing current density versus applied potential curves under AM1.5G illumination for DSCs sensitized with (a) D35 and (b) D29; spectra of incident photon to current efficiency (IPCE) for DSCs sensitized with (c) D35 and (d) D29; electron lifetime as a function of extracted charge under open circuit conditions for DSCs sensitized with (e) D35 and (f) D29.
- the electrolytes were [Co(bpy) 3 ] 2+/3+ (blue squares),
- Figure 3 shows current density versus applied potential curves under AMI .5G illumination for DSCs sensitized with D35 employing [Co(bpy) 3 ] 2+/3+ (blue squares),
- Figures 4a-b showing PIA spectra of Ti0 2 sensitized with (a) D35 (b) D29 using [Co(bpy) 3 ] 2+/3+ (blue squares), [Co(dmb) 3 ] 2+/3+ (red circles), [Co(dtb) 3 ] 2+/3+ (green triangles) and iodide/triiodide (magenta stars) based electrolytes. Black cross is the spectra of the dyes in air.
- the electrolyte was 0.1 M Co(xxx) 3 (C10 4 ) 2 , 0.01 M Co(xxx) 3 (C10 4 ) 3 , 0.1 M
- Figures 5a-b show plots of current transients for DSCs sensitized with (a) D35 and (b) D29 using [Co(bpy) 3 ] 2+/3+ (blue solid line), [Co(dmb) 3 ] 2+/3+ (red dashed line) and [Co(dtb) 3 ] 2+/3+ (green dotted line) based electrolytes;
- Figures 6a-b showing light intensity dependence of (a) the current density under short circuit conditions and (b) the open circuit voltage for DSCs sensitized with D35 using [Co(bpy) 3 ] 2+/3+ (blue squares), [Co(dmb) 3 ] 2+/3+ (red circles), [Co(dtb) 3 ] 2+/3+ (green triangles) and iodide/triiodide (magenta stars) based electrolytes;
- Figures 7a-b showing: (a) transport time as a function of short circuit current and (b) electron lifetime as a function of open circuit voltage for [Co(bpy) 3 ] 2+/3+ based DSCs sensitized with D35 with different thickness of Ti0 2 .
- the film thickness was 4 ⁇ (blue stars), 6 ⁇ (red triangles), 15 ⁇ (green squares) and 24 ⁇ (magenta circles);
- Figure 8 shows plots of current transients for [Co(bpy)3] 2+/3+ based DSCs sensitized with D35 with different thickness of Ti02.
- the film thickness was 4 ⁇ (blue dashed-dotted line), 6 ⁇ (red dotted line), 15 ⁇ (green dashed line) and 24 ⁇ (magenta solid line);
- the electrolytes were 0.5 M Co(bpy) 3 (PF 6 ) 2 , 0.1 M Co(bpy) 3 (PF 6 ) 3 , 0.5 M TBP and 0.1 M LiC10 4 in acetonitrile, or 0.6 M l-butyl-3-methylimidazoliumiodide, 0.03 M I 2 , 0.5 M TBP and 0.1 M guanidinium thiocyanate in acetonitrile, respectively;
- Chart 1 shows the chemical structure of (a) D29 and (b) D35;
- Table 1 shows Current - Voltage characteristics of DSCs sensitized with D35 using [Co(bpy)3] 2+/3+ and iodide/triiodide based electrolytes measured under 1 sun AM1.5G, 1/10 sun AM1.5G and 250 lux illumination;
- Figure Fl shows the general structure of a triarylamine dye for use in cobalt- based electrolytes
- Figure F2 schematically shows how rigidifying the structure of a dye can be achieved by linkage in ortho -position
- Figure F3 shows examples of extended linker dyes designed to broaden the absorption
- Figure F4 schematically shows the synthesis of an extended linker dye
- Figure F5 shows the molecular structure of (a) bipyridine, (b) phenanthroline, (c) terpyridine and (d) 2,6-di(quinolin-8-yl-pyridine) cobalt (II) complexes.
- Triphenylamine (TPA) based organic dyes have during the last years been widely examined as sensitizer in DSCs, due to the good electron donating properties of the triphenylamine unit and their potential for low cost dyes.
- TPA Triphenylamine
- the TPA based organic sensitizers employed herein have high extinction coefficients compared to ruthenium based dyes of about 70 000 M _1 cm _1 and the inclusion of bulky alkoxy electron-donating substituents on the dyes have been shown elsewhere to efficiently suppress recombination in iodide/triiodide based DSCs [see Jiang, X.; Marinado, T.; Gabrielsson, E.; Hagberg, D. P.; Sun, L.; Hagfeldt, A. J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 2799]. Matching the steric bulk of the dye and the redox mediator is herein suggested to minimize recombination and mass transport problems associated with cobalt redox mediators.
- the sterics of bipyridine and phenanthroline cobalt redox shuttles were varied by introducing different alkyl substituents on the polypyridine ligands.
- a schematic illustration of the energy diagram of a DSC sensitized with D29 and D35 employing the different cobalt redox shuttles reported herein and the chemical structure of the redox couples are shown in Figure la) and b), respectively .
- the cobalt complexes were cobalt(III/II) tris(2,2 ' - bipyridine), [Co(bpy) 3 ] 3+/2+ , cobalt(III/II) tris(4,4 ' -dimethyl-2,2 ' - bipyridine),
- the efficiency is higher for DSCs sensitized with D35.
- the higher efficiency yield with D35 is a result of decreased dark current densities (see Figure S2 in Supporting Information) as the butoxyl groups introduced on D35 prevents the surface of the Ti0 2 from the oxidized species in the electrolyte.
- the open circuit voltage (Voc) for DSCs sensitized with D35 is remarkably high for organic dyes since the recombination is significantly slowed down as a result of the insulating effect of the bulky alkoxy groups.
- IPCE Incident-photon-to-current conversion efficiency
- the lower IPCE values with the less steric bulk of the cobalt complexes for D29 based DSCs can be a result of a lower driving force for regeneration and / or fast recombination kinetics, and the different aspects will be further considered below.
- [Co(phen) 3 ] 3+/2+ based electrolytes are shown in Figure 3.
- the redox potential of the cobalt polypyridine complexes employed herein are shown in Figure 1 and are 0.62 V vs. NHE for [Co(phen) 3 ] 3+/2+ , 0.56 V vs. NHE for [Co(bpy) 3 ] 3+/2+ and 0.43 V vs. NHE for [Co(dmb) 3 ] 3+/2+ and [Co(dtb)3] 3+/2+ , respectively.
- the Voc increases with the Nernst potential of the redox shuttles and the highest Voc of 0.92 V is obtained using [Co(phen) 3 ] 3+/2+ as a redox couple.
- the regeneration of the dyes by the cobalt complexes was investigated with photoinduced absorption spectroscopy performed under operation conditions of DSCs.
- the PIA spectra of D35 and D29 employing the three different cobalt bipyridyl redox mediators reported herein and iodide/triiodide are shown in Figure 4a) and b), respectively.
- a bleach is found at 520 nm for D35 and 540 nm for D29, respectively, and an increase in absorbance in the near infrared. The latter can be attributed to the oxidized dye, and to a lesser extent, electron in Ti0 2 .
- the bleach is attributed both to ground- state bleach of the oxidized dye, as well as to Stark shifts that occurs due to a local change of the electrical field across the dye molecules, caused by the photoinjected electrons.
- the electrolyte When the electrolyte is added the oxidized features from the dye in the near infrared disappears indicating that the redox mediators regenerate the dye and a broad absorption due to accumulated electrons in Ti0 2 can be seen.
- a bleach at about 520 nm persists, which is caused by the Stark effect.
- the electroabsorption spectra of D35 and D29 (shown in Figure S4 in Supporting Information) verify that the observed bleaches are caused by a change in the absorbance spectra of the dye by a local electric field. No time constants for the regeneration were measured herein, but the lifetime of Ru(III) in the presence of [Co(dtb) 3 ] 3+/2+ has been reported elsewhere to be about 400 ns.14
- the high IPCE values for DSCs sensitized with D35 suggests on the other hand that the regeneration efficiency is high, pointing towards that it is slow mass transport of the cobalt complexes that slows down the regeneration since mass transport limitations are not thought to influence the IPCE.
- the lower IPCE value for DSCs sensitized with D29 was therefore not attributed to a lower driving force for regeneration, but rather to fast
- the diffusion coefficients of the cobalt bipyridyl redox mediators were determined from the diffusion limiting current measured by slow scan cyclic voltammetry to 5.25 x 10-6 cmY 1 for [Co(dtb) 3 ] 3+/2+ , 7.74 x 10-6 cm 2s l for [Co(dmb) 3 ] 3+/2+ and 9.12 x 10-6 cm 2s l for [Co(bpy) 3 ] 3+/2+ in acetonitrile.
- Cobalt complexes containing alkyl substituents in the 4 and 4' or equivalent positions have been shown elsewhere to be surface sensitive showing irreversible behavior on platinized electrodes [see Sapp, S. A.; Elliott, C. M.; Contado, C; Caramori, S.; Bignozzi, C. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11215].
- Kitamura, T.; Wada, Y.; Yanagida, S. J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 3488] showed that recombination in DSCs employing cobalt redox mediator was slowed down by the addition of Li+ and attributed the effect to a decrease in local concentration of Co(III) caused by repulsion of adsorbed Li cations. Recombination via surface states may therefore be avoided by the addition of Li+ in the electrolyte, but can become more dominant when less- adsorptive cations like TBA+ is used. In the case of addition of TBA+ in the electrolyte the reaction order also depends on the nature of the redox couple employed since electron transfer via surface state to the oxidized redox mediator may become more significant.
- Figure 7 shows the effect of varying film thickness on the transport and electron lifetime in DSCs sensitized with D35 using a [Co(bpy)3] 3+/2+ based electrolyte.
- the electron lifetime decreases and the transport time increases, i.e. the transport slows down, with increasing thickness of the Ti0 2 .
- Electron transport is suggested to be driven by diffusion and has been shown elsewhere to increase with the film thickness in DSCs [see
- Figure 8 shows the effect of varying the Ti0 2 film thickness on photocurrent transients for DSCs sensitized with D35 employing [Co(bpy)3] 3+/2+ in the electrolyte.
- the photocurrent transients were normalized with respect to the steady state current in order to illustrate the increase in the current spike with increasing film thickness as the light is switched on.
- the current is clearly limited by mass transport problems through the mesoporous Ti0 2 film.
- the efficiency of DSCs sensitized with D35 employing cobalt redox mediators is superior to that obtained by other groups working with cobalt based DSCs using ruthenium based sensitizers and shows the advantages of using organic dyes in cobalt based DSCs.
- the best efficiency obtained at 1/10 of a sun was 7.76 % using electrodes with three layers of Ti0 2 and a lower concentration of cobalt in the electrolyte than that used for the optimized result reported here (see Figure S8 in shown in Supporting Information). It can be noted that the efficiency increases when the solar cells are heated under the solar simulator since the diffusion of the cobalt complexes is faster at higher temperatures. Liberatore et al.
- the voltage for sandwiched DSCs sensitized with N719 employing iodide/triiodide was shown in the same study to be about 370 mV at a light intensity of 100 lux and is substantially lower than the voltage obtained herein of above 600 mV at the same light intensity (data not shown).
- Modules of D35 based DSCs using cobalt redox mediators have a great potential to exceed the efficiency of the above reported devices and the stability of the devices can be extended by using the less corrosive redox couple.
- the Voc and the electron lifetime are interestingly about the same for the optimized DSCs reported herein with addition of a large amount of TBP in the electrolyte.
- the Voc increases upon the addition of TBP in the electrolyte for both DSCs employing iodide/triiodide or cobalt based redox mediators, but the mechanism of TBP appears to be different in the solar cells.
- Figure Fl shows the structural motif of the TAA-based dyes for use in DSCs with cobalt-based electrolytes.
- the triarylamine core is part of the electron rich donor side of the molecule, which is electronically linked to the acceptor and anchor group A through a conjugated ⁇ -system.
- Ar and Ar' are electron donating aromatic substituents, typically substituted phenyls or biphenyls, or additional linker-acceptor/anchoring groups.
- Electron donating aromatic substituents include phenyl, thiophene, furan, naphthyl- derivatives and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fused heterocyclic systems and their corresponding oligomeric variants. They may be substituted by aliphatic groups in order to control the steric bulk of the molecule.
- Oligomers may be rigidified by ortho-linkage, effectively making them for example fluorenes, carbazoles
- A is an electron withdrawing group that chemically and electronically connects the dye to the semiconductor surface. Modification of the anchoring group is typically used to tune the electronic coupling between the dye and the semiconductor.
- Successful anchoring groups include carboxylic acid functions such as cyanoacrylic acid and rhodanine-3-acetic acid. It may also be possible to use a phosphorous or sulfur based anchoring group, for example in the form of a phosphonate or sulfonate.
- ⁇ is a series of one or more conjugated units which electronically link the donor and acceptor part of the dye molecule. These central units may consist of a
- heterocyclic units containing up to four heteroatoms from group 14-16 of the periodic table per ring (primarily phenyl, thiophene, furan, pyrrole, thiazole and oxazole) or their fused and polycyclic variants (such as thieno[3,2-3 ⁇ 4]thiophene, dithieno[3,2-3 ⁇ 4:2',3'- ⁇ i]thiophene, phenothiazine, phenoxazine, 4H- silolo[3,2-£:4,5-£']dithiophene and carbazole).
- central, ⁇ -conjugated units will be further functionalized to tune the chemical and physical properties of the sensitizer.
- These straight chain or cyclic substituents around the periphery of the central ⁇ -system may be fully saturated, such as in 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene.
- the aromatic units of the linker may also be spaced by olefmic segments, provided that the conjugation between the donor and acceptor is not disrupted.
- the key to the success of our strategy is the exploitation of the high extinction coefficient of the organic dye in combination with a thin Ti0 2 electrode.
- simultaneously increase the extinction coefficient and broaden the absorption spectrum of the dye further by increasing the length of the ⁇ -system.
- FIG. F3 A synthetic route for D35EDOT can be seen in Figure F4. Going from D35 to D35EDOT, broader and stronger light absorption is expected, while the oxidation potential of the dye is lowered by 0.2 V, as indicated by quantum chemical calculations. The absorption is expected to be broadened even further by going to D35E, but at the cost of a lower extinction coefficient.
- a similarly crucial property of the dye when used in combination with Co- based redox couples is the steric bulk, which can be controlled by the number and
- composition of the aliphatic chains attached on Ar, Ar' or ⁇ Hydrogens on the dye periphery can substituted for cyclic or acyclic, straight or branched aliphatic groups, such as alkyl, alkoxy or ethylene glycol groups, provided that the ⁇ -conjugation is maintained.
- the corresponding complexes included in the optimization of these cobalt-based DSCs incorporating triarylamine-based organic sensitizers are cobalt(II) bipyridine, phenathroline, terpyridine and 2,6-di(quinolin-8-yl-pyridine) complexes.
- the redox potential of the complexes can be tuned varying the number and type of substituents around the ligands as shown in Figure F5.
- Typical substituents for R 1-10 include hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, haloalkyl, heteroaryl, carboxyl, halogen, oxo, nitro, nitrile, amine or amide functions.
- the corresponding substituents R 1-10 around the bidentate and tridentate polypyridine ligands do not have to be identical.
- Oxidation of the cobalt complexes was performed by adding a slight excess of NOBF 4 to an acetonitrile solution of the cobalt complex and then by removing the acetonitrile solution by rotary evaporation. The complex was then redissolved in acetonitrile and a large amount of NH 4 PF 6 was added to the solution to remove the BF 4 - anion. The final product was precipitated with diethylether, filtered, dried under vaccum and used without further purification.
- the films were then rinsed in ethanol to remove excess dye.
- Solar cells were assembled with a thermally platinized counter electrode (TEC8) using a 30 ⁇ thick thermoplastic Surlyn frame. An electrolyte was then introduced through two holes drilled in the counter electrode and the cell was sealed with thermoplastic Surlyn covers. Unless otherwise noted the electrolyte consisted of 0.22 M Co(xxx) 3 (PF6) 2 , 0.033 M Co(xxx) 3 (PF 6 ) 3 , 0.1 M LiC10 4 and 0.2 M 4-tert butylpyridine (TBP) in acetonitrile, where xxx ascribe the different polypyridine ligands, respectively. For comparison DSCs were prepared using 0.6 M tertbutylammonium iodide, 0.1 M Lil, 0.05 M I 2 and 0.2 M TBP in acetonitrile.
- Incident photon to current conversion efficiency (IPCE) spectra were recorded using a computer-controlled setup consisting of a xenon light source (Spectral Products ASB-XE- 175), a monochromator (Spectral Products CM110) and a potentiostat (EG&G PAR 273), calibrated using a certified reference solar cell (Fraunhofer ISE). Electron lifetime, transport times and extracted charge measurements were perfomed using a white LED (Luxeon Star 1W) as the light source. Voltage and current traces were recorded with a 16-bit resolution digital acquisition board (National Instruments) in combination with a current amplifier (Stanford Research Systems SR570) and a custom made system using electromagnetic switches.
- IPCE current conversion efficiency
- Transport and lifetimes were determined by monitoring photocurrent and photovoltage transients at different light intensities upon applying a small square wave modulation to the base light intensity.
- the photocurrent and photovoltaic responses are fitted using first-order kinetics to obtain time constants.
- Extracted charge measurements were performed by illuminating the cell for 10 s under open circuit conditions and then by turning the lamp off to let the voltage to decay to a voltage V. The cell was then short circuited and the current was measured under 0.1 s and integrated to obtain Qoc (V).
- Photoinduced Absorption Spectroscopy PIA measurements were performed using the same setup as described elsewhere.21 A square wave modulated blue LED (Luxeon Star 1 W, Royal Blue, 460 nm) used for excitation was superimposed on a white probe light provided by a 20 W tungsten- halogen lamp. The transmitted probe light was focused onto a monochromator (Acton Research Corporation SP-150) and detected using a UV-enhanced Si photodiode, connected to a lock-in amplifier (Stanford Research Systems model SR830) via a current amplifier (Stanford Research Systems model SR570). The intensity of the probe light was about 1/10 of a sun and the intensity of the excitation LED was about 8 mW cm 2 . The modulation frequency was 9.33 Hz. Electrochemical measurements. Cyclic Voltammetry was performed on a CH Instruments 660 potentiostat using a three-electrode setup. For the diffusion
- a 20 ⁇ platina microelectrode was used as the working electrode, a glassy carbon as counter electrode and an Ag/AgN0 3 as reference electrode.
- the reference electrode was calibrated versus ferrocene.
- the electrolyte solution was 15 mM Co(xxx) 3 (PF 6 )2 and 0.1 M TBAPF 6 in acetonitrile. Impedance measurements were performed on an Ivium
- potentiostat using a two electrode setup consisting of two platinized FTO electrodes
- Wavelength / nm Wavelength / nm
- FIG. 4 Electroabsorption spectra of D35 (blue solid line) and D29 (red dashed line) measured using the same setup as in the photoinduced absorption measurements. A voltage was modulated at a frequency of 5.33 Hz across the samples using a function generator (HP 33120 A) and ⁇ was calculated from the change in transmission in phase with the modulation. The voltage offset of 0V and the voltage amplitude was 10 V.
- Figure S7 Light intensity dependence of the open circuit voltage for DSCs sensitized with D35 containing 0.1 M TBAPF 6 (green traces) or 0.1 M LiC10 4 (blue traces) using
- Figure S8 Current density versus applied potential curves under 1/10 sun AM1.5G illumination for DSCs sensitized with D35 employing a [Co(bpy)3] 2+/3+ based electrolyte.
- the electrolyte was 0.22 M Co(bpy) 3 (PF 6 ) 2 , 0.033 M Co(xxx)3(PF 6 ) 3 , 0.1 M LiC10 4 and 0.2 M TBP in acetonitrile.
- the electrode thickness was 22 ⁇ . The efficiency was measured using a 5 x 5 mm2 mask.
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