Multi-carbazole derivatives: new dyes for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

作者:Lai Hua*; Hong Jia; Liu Ping; Yuan Chao; Li Yuxue; Fang Qiang
来源:RSC Advances, 2012, 2(6): 2427-2432.
DOI:10.1039/c2ra01002j

摘要

Three new multi-carbazole derivatives (2C-4C) with a twisted and zigzag-shape structure were designed, synthesized and used as sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The results showed that this non-planar structure of 2C-4C, combined with multi alkyl chains, can efficiently inhibit dye aggregation and charge recombination, which gave DSSCs with a high open circuit voltage (V-oc) and an overall solar-to-electric conversion efficiency (eta) of up to 6.33%.