title: A novel organic chromophore for dye-sensitized nanostructured solar cells.
abstract: A novel and efficient polyene-diphenylaniline dye for dye-sensitized solar cells has been synthesized. The dye has a short synthesis route and is readily adsorbed on TiO2 under a variety of dye-bath conditions. The overall solar-to-energy conversion efficiency is over 5% in the preliminary tests, in comparison with the conventional N719 dye which gives 6% under the same conditions. The dye is designed for future use also in solid state devices, with triarylamine based hole conductors.
authors.affiliation: Center of Molecular Devices, Organic Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 30, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Hagberg
authors.forename: Tomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Edvinsson
authors.forename: Tannia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Marinado
authors.forename: Gerrit
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Boschloo
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hagfeldt
authors.forename: Licheng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun