Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 235, Issue -, Pages 243-250Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.02.032
Keywords
Monolithic; Dye-sensitized solar cell; Iodine-free; Quasi-solid-state; Polymer gel electrolyte; High efficiency
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [SS2013AA50303]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61106056]
- Nature Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2008CDA042]
- Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Scholars, Ministry of Education of China
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2011TS020]
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A monolithic quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell assembled with an iodine-free polymer gel electrolyte (IFGE) and a printable mesoscopic carbon counter electrode was developed. The IFGE was prepared by employing an ionic liquid (1,2-dimethyl-3-propylimidazolium iodide, DMPII) as the charge transfer intermediate and a polymer composite as the gelator without the addition of iodine, exhibiting high conductivity and non-absorption characters. The dependences of ionic conductivity and photovoltaic performance on DMPII concentration in the IFGE were investigated. An overall power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 4.94% could be obtained for the IFGE with an ionic conductivity of 21.18 mS cm(-2) under 100 mW cm(-2) AM 1.5 illumination. The effects of additives lithium iodide (LiI) and N-methyl-benzimidazole (NMBI) on the photovoltaic performance of the devices were also investigated. An optimal efficiency of up to 6.97% was obtained and the results were substantiated by incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE) spectrum, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and intensity modulated photovoltage spectroscopy (IMVS) measurements. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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