Ultrathin but highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) may be beneficial for making flexible devices and lowering production costs. Here, a uniform, ultrathin inverse opal (IO) electrode sensitized with a dithienothiophene (DTT)-based sensitizer (Carbz-PAHTDTT) was successfully prepared and demonstrated as a high-efficiency DSC electrode. The ultrathin IO was fabricated using a polystyrene opal template subsequently coated with TiO2via a chemical vapor deposition approach. The Carbz-PAHTDTT-sensitized IO film was compared to an IO film sensitized by a conventional N719 dye. The charge collection efficiency of the Carbz-PAHTDTT-sensitized TiO2IO electrode was comparable to the N719-sensitized electrode. However, the Carbz-PAHTDTT TiO2IO electrode DSCs exhibited remarkably high light-harvesting efficiency due to high adsorption density and visible light absorption features of the Carbz-PAHTDTT-sensitized electrode. The Carbz-PAHTDTT DSCs containing a 3.5 μm thick IO electrode displayed a photocurrent density of 11.23 mA cm-2, which was 1.5 times higher compared to the N719-sensitized DSCs.
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Ha, S. J., Kim, J. S., Cho, C. Y., Lee, J. W., Han, H. G., Kwon, T. H., & Moon, J. H. (2014). Highly improved photocurrents of dye-sensitized solar cells containing ultrathin 3D inverse opal electrodes sensitized with a dithienothiophene-based organic dye. RSC Advances, 4(77), 40980–40984. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra06847e
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