title: Organic dyes containing coplanar diphenyl-substituted dithienosilole core for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells.
abstract: Two new organic dyes adopting coplanar diphenyl-substituted dithienosilole as the central linkage have been synthesized, characterized, and used as the sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The best DSSC exhibited a high power conversion efficiency up to 7.6% (TP6CADTS) under AM 1.5G irradiation, reaching approximately 96% of the ruthenium dye N719-based reference cell under the same conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Li-Yen
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Chih-Hung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Ken-Tsung
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Tsung-Wei
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Lun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Su-Hao
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hao-Wu
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Chung-Chih
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Shu-Hua
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Chou
authors.forename: Shinn-Horng
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: An-I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Tsai