Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells: 1, 1, 2, 2‐Tetrachloroethane (TeCA) as a Solvent Additive for Organic Hole Transport Materials and Its Application in Highly Efficient Solid‐State Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells (Adv. Energy Mater. 10/2015). Issue 10 (May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xu, Bo; Gabrielsson, Erik; Safdari, Majid; Cheng, Ming; Hua, Yong; Tian, Haining; Gardner, James M.; Kloo, Lars; Sun, Licheng
• Is Part Of: Advanced energy materials. Volume 5:Issue 10(2015:May)
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• Publication Date: 2015-05
• Subjects: Energy harvesting -- Materials -- Periodicals; Energy conversion -- Materials -- Periodicals; Energy storage -- Materials -- Periodicals; Photovoltaics -- Periodicals; Fuel cells -- Periodicals; Thermoelectric materials -- Periodicals; 621.31
• DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201570054
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1614-6832

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="graphical" xml:lang="en" id="aenm201570054-abs-0001"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>In article number 1402340, Licheng Sun and co‐workers report the use of a lowcost organic solvent, 1, 1, 2, 2‐tetrachloroethane (TeCA), as an additive for the well‐known p‐type organic hole transport material‐2, 2', 7, 7'‐tetrakis‐(N, N‐di‐pmethoxyphenyl‐amine)‐9, 9'spiro‐bifluorene (Spiro‐OMeTAD). It is found that this significantly increases the conductivity of Spiro‐OMeTAD‐based semiconducting films. Subsequently, this additive is successfully applied in Spiro‐OMeTAD‐based solid‐state dye‐sensitized solar cells, and a record power conversion efficiency of 7.7% is obtained under one sun illumination. <graphic position="anchor" mimetype="image" xlink:href="ark:/27927/pgjnfxtb7g" orientation="portrait" xlink:type="simple" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" /></p> </abstract>