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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 112, Issue 20, Pages 7562-7566Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp801714u
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F065884/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F065884/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We present a photophysical and device-based investigation of a new bipyridyl-NCS ruthenium complex sensitizer with an extended pi system, in both sensitized TiO2 and incorporated into solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. We compare this new sensitizer to an analog dye without the extended A system. We observe very similar excited-state absorption spectra and charge recombination kinetics for the two systems. However, the pi-extended senstizer has a phenomenally enhanced molar extinction coefficient which translates into far greater light harvesting and current collection in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. We also infer from transient photovoltage measurements that positioning the pendent extended pi system away from the TiO2 surface has induced a favorable dipole shift, generating enhanced open-circuit voltage. The resulting power conversion efficiency for the solar cell has been increased from 2.4% to 3.2% when comparing the new sensitizer to an analogy with no pendent group.
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