Recent improvements in dye sensitized solar cells: A review

V Sugathan, E John, K Sudhakar - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) is considered to be one of the most promising
technological developments in the field of Solar Cells. It is basically a cell that imitates the …

An overview on the spectrum of sensitizers: the heart of dye sensitized solar cells

B Basheer, D Mathew, BK George, CPR Nair - Solar Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
The development of hybrid solar cells such as Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) opens up a
new generation of thin film solar cells with high performance to cost ratio. They are expected …

Towards new efficient dye-sensitised solar cells

J Preat, D Jacquemin, EA Perpète - Energy & Environmental Science, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The technology to convert sunlight into electric current by employing organic photovoltaic
systems has been an issue of an intensive research over the last two decades and …

Effects of annealing conditions on the photoelectrochemical properties of dye-sensitized solar cells made with ZnO nanoparticles

L Lu, R Li, K Fan, T Peng - Solar Energy, 2010 - Elsevier
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated by using porous ZnO electrodes derived
from home-made ZnO nanoparticles. Electrochemical impedance spectra and open-circuit …

Preparation of ZnO-coated TiO2 electrodes using dip coating and their applications in dye-sensitized solar cells

CS Chou, FC Chou, JY Kang - Powder Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
This study investigates the applicability of a ZnO-coated TiO2 working electrode in a dye-
sensitized solar cell (DSSC). This working electrode was designed and fabricated by the …

Preparation of TiO2/NiO composite particles and their applications in dye-sensitized solar cells

CS Chou, YJ Lin, RY Yang, KH Liu - Advanced Powder Technology, 2011 - Elsevier
This study investigates the applicability of n-type TiO2 and p-type NiO on the FTO-glass
(Fluorine doped tin oxide, SnO2: F) substrate of the working electrode in a dye-sensitized …

Probing Interfacial Electron Transfer in Coumarin 343 Sensitized TiO2 Nanoparticles with Femtosecond Stimulated Raman

RR Frontiera, J Dasgupta… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy (FSRS) is used as a structural probe of the
interfacial electron transfer between Coumarin 343, a solar cell sensitizer, and TiO2 …

First-principles study of efficient phenothiazine-based D–π–A organic sensitizers with various spacers for DSSCs

A Arunkumar, S Shanavas, PM Anbarasan - Journal of Computational …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Design of highly efficient sensitizers is one of the most significant issues for dye-
sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In this work, we designed and screened a series of …

New D-π-A dyes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

SY Qu, JL Hua, H Tian - Science China Chemistry, 2012 - Springer
Functional organic dyes have promising prospect in dye-sensitized solar cells as a crucial
element, of which sensitizers based on donor-π-acceptor are the most important dyes. On …

Design of new triphenylamine-sensitized solar cells: a theoretical approach

J Preat, D Jacquemin, EA Perpète - Environmental science & …, 2010 - ACS Publications
This work reports a theoretical study of the photovoltaic properties of a series of original
conjugated metal-free organic dyes containing the triphenylamine (TPA) moiety. These …