High Absorption Coefficient Cyclopentadithiophene Donor-Free Dyes for Liquid and Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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• 作者：Yue Hu ; Antonio Abate ; Yiming Cao ; Aruna Ivaturi ; Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin ; Michael Grätzel ; Neil Robertson
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 21, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：120
• 期：28
• 页码：15027-15034
• 全文大小：444K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1932-7455

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We report a series of “donor-free” dyes featuring moieties of oligo(4,4-dihexyl-4H-cyclopenta[1,2-b:5,4-b′]dithiophene) (CPDT) functionalized with cyanoacrylic end groups for mesoscopic titania solar cells based on I^–/I₃^– or Co(II)/Co(III) redox couple and spiro-OMeTAD hole transporter. These were compared with similar cells using an oligo(3-hexylthiophene) dye (5T), which we reported before. Extending the CPDT moiety of the dye molecules from one to three (denoted as CPDT-1, CPDT-2, and CPDT-3) widens the photoresponse overlap with the solar spectrum, increases the molar absorption coefficient up to 75 000 M^–1 cm^–1, and improves the short-circuit current (J_SC), open-circuit voltage (V_OC), and power conversion efficiency (PCE) for all types of DSSCs. Among these sensitizers, CPDT-3 shows the highest PCE of 6.7%, 7.3%, and 3.9% with I^–/I₃^–, Co(II)/Co(III) redox couple, and spiro-OMeTAD hole transporter, respectively, compared with 7.6%, 9.0%, and 4.0% for 5T. Benefiting from the high absorption of CPDT-3, we demonstrate 900 nm thick mesoporous TiO₂ film with remarkable J_SC of 10.9 mA cm^–2 in solid-state DSCs.