Efficient Panchromatic Organic Sensitizers with Dihydrothiazole Derivative as pi-Bridge for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

• Novel organic dyes CC201 and CC202 with dihydrothiazole derivative as pi-bridge have been synthesizedand applied in the DSSCs. With the synergy electron-withdrawing of dihydrothiazole and cyanoacrylic acid, these two novel dyes CC201 and CC202 show excellent response in the region of 500-800 nm. An efficiency as high as 6.1% was obtained for the device fabricated by sensitizer CC202 together with cobalt electrolyte under standard light illumination (AM 1.5G, 100 mW cm(-2)). These two novel D-pi-A panchromatic organic dyes gave relatively high efficiencies except common reported squaraine dyes.

Keyword

sensitizers

dye-sensitized solar cells

D-pi-A organic dyes

panchromatic organic dyes

phenothiazine

triphenylamine

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