Efficient co-sensitization of nanocrystalline TiO2 films by organic sensitizers

Abstract

Dye-sensitized solar cells based on co-sensitization of organic dyes having complementary spectral absorption in the visible region resulted in a panchromatic response, which exhibited 86% incident monochromatic photon-to-current conversion efficiency in the visible region; the optimized cell gave a short circuit current density of 15.5 mA cm-2, an open circuit voltage of 685 mV and a fill factor of 0.70 corresponding to an overall conversion efficiency of 7.43% under solar simulated light irradiation of 100 mW cm-2. © The Royal Society of Chemistry.