Abstract
We demonstrate that a combined optimization approach based on the sequential alternation of theoretical analysis and experimental realization gives rise to plastic supported dye solar cells for which both light harvesting efficiency and electron collection are maximized. Rationalized configurations with optimized light trapping and charge extraction are realized to achieve photoanodes on plastic prepared at low temperature, showing a power conversion efficiency of 8.55% and a short circuit photocurrent of 16.11 mA cm-2, unprecedented for plastic based dye solar cell devices. Furthermore, the corresponding fully flexible designs present stable mechanical properties after several bending cycles, displaying 7.79% power conversion efficiency, an average broadband internal quantum efficiency above 90%, and a short circuit photocurrent of 15.94 mA cm-2, which is the largest reported value for bendable cells of this sort to date.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2061-2071 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Energy and Environmental Science |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 Jun |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial support from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 307081 (POLIGHT) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under grant MAT2014-54852-R is gratefully acknowledged. YL acknowledges the financial support from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ under REA grant agreement no. 622533. AJS thanks Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for funding through an FPI program under the project MAT2011-23593. MJK acknowledges funding support from the Global Frontier R&D Program on Center for Multiscale Energy System (2012M3A6A7054856), the Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes (2015M1A2A2056824) and 2015 University-Institute cooperation program funded by the National Research Foundation under the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Korea. This work was also supported by the KIST institutional programs.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Environmental Chemistry
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering
- Pollution
