A Step Toward Efficient Panchromatic Multi-Chromophoric Sensitizers for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Jradi, Fadi M.; O’Neil, Daniel; Kang, Xiongwu; Wong, Jinsze; Szymanski, Paul; Parker, Timothy C.; Anderson, Harry L.; El-Sayed, Mostafa A.; Marder, Seth R.

doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02006

A Step Toward Efficient Panchromatic Multi-Chromophoric Sensitizers for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Journal Article · Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Chemistry of Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02006· OSTI ID:1369927

Jradi, Fadi M. ^[1]; O’Neil, Daniel ^[2]; Kang, Xiongwu ^[2]; Wong, Jinsze ^[3]; Szymanski, Paul ^[2]; Parker, Timothy C. ^[1]; Anderson, Harry L. ^[3]; El-Sayed, Mostafa A. ^[2]; Marder, Seth R. ^[1]

Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics
Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). Laser Dynamics Lab., School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)

Panchromatic dyes with absorption profiles extending into the near infra-red are of interest to researchers in the field of dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), as they offer potential access to a wide energy range of photons necessary to enhance solar to electric power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). In this report, a porphyrin with a Soret band absorbing at high energy is combined with a squaraine absorbing at low energy $via$ an acetylene linker to form a bichromophoric sensitizer with molar extinctions on the order of 10⁵ M^-1 cm^-1 and an incident photon-to-current efficiency (IPCE) onset of ~850 nm. Various bulky substituents were installed on both the porphyrin and squaraine moieties, and conjugation was increased with π-bridge spacers to achieve a PCE of 7.6%, which is up to 15% higher than a comparable squaraine-only dye. For the most part, charge injection dynamics indicate slower charge injection rates and lower injection quantum yields for these bichromophoric sensitizers compared to non-porphyrin squaraine-based DSSC sensitizers. Nevertheless, higher PCE was observed for most porphyrincontaining dyes due largely to increased panchromaticity.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials (CISSEM)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001084

OSTI ID:: 1369927

Journal Information:: Chemistry of Materials, Journal Name: Chemistry of Materials Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 27; ISSN 0897-4756

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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