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Application of Cu(II) and Zn(II) coproporphyrins as sensitizers for thin film dye sensitized solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mingkui Wang, Pascal Comte, Davide Di Censo, Joël Teuscher
2010
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Abstract

We synthesized the Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of the 2,7,12,17-tetrapropionic acid of 3,8,13,18-tetramethyl-21H,23H porphyrin (coproporphyrin-I) and successfully employed them as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells. Copper(II) coproporphyrin-I exhibits a power conversion efficiency of 3.8% measured under irradiation of AM 1.5G full sunlight (100 mW cm(-2)).

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Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mingkui Wang, Pascal Comte, Davide Di Censo, Joël Teuscher
2010
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Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/6c6879e6-0040-40ab-9177-94c07c1e02ee

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Dye-sensitized solar cell

A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC, DSC, DYSC or Grätzel cell) is a low-cost solar cell belonging to the group of thin film solar cells. It is based on a semiconductor formed between a photo-sensitized anode and an electrolyte, a photoelectrochemical system. The modern version of a dye solar cell, also known as the Grätzel cell, was originally co-invented in 1988 by Brian O'Regan and Michael Grätzel at UC Berkeley and this work was later developed by the aforementioned scientists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) until the publication of the first high efficiency DSSC in 1991.

Thin-film solar cell

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