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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nattestad, Andrew
• Perera, Ishanie
• Spiccia, Leone

Titel

Developments in and prospects for photocathodic and tandem dye-sensitized solar cells

Ist Teil von

• Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. C, Photochemistry reviews, 2016-09, Vol.28, p.44-71

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Photocathodic dye-sensitized solar cells (pDSC) limit realisation of high efficiency tandems.•The ambitious nature of pDSC research has provided some remarkable results.•Development since 1999 has seen a 350-fold improvement, but still a long way to go.•Recent progress suggests the prospects for this technology are still promising.•Priority areas identified for development of better pDSC, to create high efficiency tandems. Third generation photovoltaics are based on the concept of providing high conversion efficiencies with low device production costs. As such, second generation concepts, such as Dye-sensitized Solar Cells (DSCs), serve as a good starting point for the development of these new devices. Tandem DSC devices are one example of such a concept, and can be constructed using two photoactive electrodes (one photoanode and one photocathode) inside the one cavity, increasing the theoretical efficiency limit by around 50% as compared to the conventional design. As there has been substantial effort devoted to the development of n-type DSCs, the focus of researchers investigating tandem DSCs has been to create high performance p-type systems, which operate by an analogous, but inverted, mechanism to n-type DSCs.