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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 135, Issue 19, Pages 7378-7385Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja403344s
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- Swedish Energy Agency
- Swedish Research Council (VR)
- STandUP for Energy program
- Goran Gustafsson Foundation
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Efficient solid state dye-sensitized solar cells (sDSCs) were obtained using a small hole transport material, MeO-TPD (N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(4-methoxyphenyl)benzidine), after an initial light soaking treatment. It was discovered that the light soaking treatment for the MeO-TPD based solar cells is essential in order to achieve the high efficiency (4.9%), which outperforms spiro-OMeTAD based sDSCs using the same dye and device preparation parameters. A mechanism based on Li+ ion migration is suggested to explain the light soaking effect. It was observed that the electron lifetime for the MeO-TPD based sDSC strongly increases after the light soaking treatment, which explains the higher efficiency. After the initial light soaking treatment the device efficiency remains considerably stable with only 0.2% decrease after around 1 month (unsealed cells stored in dark).
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