High-conversion-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells with a novel indoline dye

Seigo Ito; Hidetoshi Miura; Satoshi Uchida; Masakazu Takata; Koichi Sumioka; Paul Liska; Pascal Comte; Peter Péchy; Michael Grätzel

doi:10.1039/b809093a

High-conversion-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells with a novel indoline dye

Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Nov 7:(41):5194-6. doi: 10.1039/b809093a. Epub 2008 Sep 12.

Authors

Seigo Ito¹, Hidetoshi Miura, Satoshi Uchida, Masakazu Takata, Koichi Sumioka, Paul Liska, Pascal Comte, Peter Péchy, Michael Grätzel

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo, 671-2280, Japan. itou@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp

PMID: 18956066
DOI: 10.1039/b809093a

Abstract

An indoline dye (D205), the synthesis method of which is disclosed in this report, gave high-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells (9.52%) using an anti-aggregation reagent (chenodeoxycholic acid).