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Improvement of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Toward the Broader Light Harvesting of the Solar Spectrum
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- Authors
- Suresh Kannan Balasingam, Minoh Lee, Man Gu Kang, Yongseok Jun
- Issue Date
- 2012-11
- Citation
- Chemical Communications, v.49, pp.1471-1487
- ISSN
- 1359-7345
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been extensively evolved for the past two decades in order to improve their cell performance. From the commercialization point of view, the overall solar to electrical energy conversion efficiency should compete with other solar cells. But, due to structural restrictions of DSSC using the liquid electrolyte and a space requirement between two electrodes, the direct tandem construction of DSSCs by stacking of repeating units is highly limited. In this feature article, important research trials to overcome these barriers and a recent research trend to improve the light harvesting strategies mainly panchromatic engineering, various tandem approaches such as parallel tandem, series tandem, p-n tandem etc., have been briefly reviewed.
- KSP Keywords
- Conversion efficiency(C.E.), Electrical energy, Energy conversion efficiency, Liquid electrolyte, Petri net(PN), Solar spectrum, Space requirements, Structural restrictions, cell performance, dye sensitized solar cells(DSSC), light harvesting