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Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11, 10270 - 10274, DOI: 10.1039/b917271h


Design and characterization of highly efficient porphyrin sensitizers for green see-through dye-sensitized solar cells

Hsueh-Pei Lu, Chi-Lun Mai, Chen-Yuan Tsia, Shun-Ju Hsu, Chou-Pou Hsieh, Chien-Lan Chiu, Chen-Yu Yeh and Eric Wei-Guang Diau


YD12 ( = 6.7%) is a green sensitizer remarkable for its outstanding cell performance beyond that of N719 ( = 6.1%) with no added scattering layer; the additional scattering layer assists N719 in promoting the efficiency in the red shoulder of the spectrum, but has only a small effect on the improvement of the cell performance for porphyrins.

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