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ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201602117
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean government (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future planning (MSIP)) through the Mid-career Researcher Program [2014R1A2A1A10051630]
- Functional Districts of the Science Belt Support Program [2015K000287]
- International Collaborative Energy Technology R&D Program of the Korean Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP)
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Republic of Korea [20148520011250]
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [20148520011250] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Zn(II)-porphyrin sensitizers, coded as SGT-020 and SGT-021, are designed and synthesized through donor structural engineering. The photovoltaic (PV) performances of SGT sensitizer-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are systematically evaluated in a thorough SM315 as a reference sensitizer. The effect of the donor ability and the donor bulkiness on photovoltaic performances is investigated for establishing the structure-performance relationship in the platform of porphyrin-triple bond-benzothiadiazole-acceptor sensitizers. By introducing a more bulky fluorene unit to the amine group in the SM315, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) is enhanced with the increased short-circuit current (J(sc)) and open-circuit voltage (V-oc), due to the improved light-harvesting ability and the efficient prevention of charge recombination, respectively. As a consequence, a maximum PCE of 12.11% is obtained for SGT-021, whose PCE is much higher than the 11.70% PCE for SM315. To further improve their maximum efficiency, the first parallel tandem DSSCs employing cobalt electrolyte in the top and bottom cells are demonstrated and an extremely high efficiency of 14% is achieved, which is currently the highest reported value for tandem DSSCs. The series tandem DSSCs give a remarkably high V-oc value of >1.83 V. From this DSSC tandem configuration, 7.4% applied bias photon-to-current efficiency is achieved for solar water splitting.
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