New photovoltaic devices based on the sensitization of p-type semiconductors: challenges and opportunities

F Odobel, L Le Pleux, Y Pellegrin… - Accounts of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Because solar energy is the most abundant renewable energy resource, the clear
connection between human activity and global warming has strengthened the interest in …

Recent advances and future directions to optimize the performances of p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

F Odobel, Y Pellegrin, EA Gibson, A Hagfeldt… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2012 - Elsevier
This review provides a summary of the most important developments in the field of solar
cells based on the sensitization of p-type semiconductors, such as NiO, and identifies the …

Design of an organic chromophore for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

P Qin, H Zhu, T Edvinsson, G Boschloo… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A successful model for the design of efficient dyes for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells
(DSSCs) is presented. As an example, a novel and efficient organic dye containing a …

p-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Delafossite CuGaO2 Nanoplates with Saturation Photovoltages Exceeding 460 mV

M Yu, G Natu, Z Ji, Y Wu - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
Exploring new p-type semiconductor nanoparticles alternative to the commonly used NiO is
crucial for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (p-DSSCs) to achieve higher open-circuit …

Photoinduced ultrafast dynamics of coumarin 343 sensitized p-type-nanostructured NiO films

A Morandeira, G Boschloo, A Hagfeldt… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced electron transfer from the valence band of nanocrystalline NiO, a p-type
semiconductor, to an excited bound dye, coumarin 343, and the subsequent recombination …

Cu (I)-based delafossite compounds as photocathodes in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

M Yu, TI Draskovic, Y Wu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The research of p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (p-DSSCs) has attracted growing attention
because of the potential for integration with conventional n-type DSSCs (n-DSSCs) into the …

Large Enhancement in Photocurrent Efficiency Caused by UV Illumination of the Dye-Sensitized Heterojunction TiO2/RuLL'NCS/CuSCN:  Initiation and Potential …

B O'Regan, DT Schwartz - Chemistry of Materials, 1998 - ACS Publications
Wide-band-gap, dye-sensitized, heterojunctions of the composition n-TiO2/Ru-dye/p-
CuSCN undergo large increases in efficiency when subjected to low-power UV illumination …

Fabrication of solid-state dye-sensitized TiO2 solar cells combined with polypyrrole

K Murakoshi, R Kogure, Y Wada, S Yanagida - Solar Energy Materials and …, 1998 - Elsevier
A solid-state solar cell was fabricated by photoelectrochemical polymerization of pyrrole on
porous nanocrystalline TiO2 electrode sensitized by the Grätzel dye, cis-di (thiocyanato)-N …

Copper (I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a hole-transport material for large-area opto/electronics

N Wijeyasinghe, TD Anthopoulos - Semiconductor Science and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent advances in large-area optoelectronics research have demonstrated the
tremendous potential of copper (I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a universal hole-transport …

Inorganic p-type semiconductors: their applications and progress in dye-sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells

MH Li, JH Yum, SJ Moon, P Chen - Energies, 2016 - mdpi.com
Considering the increasing global demand for energy and the harmful ecological impact of
conventional energy sources, it is obvious that development of clean and renewable energy …