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Integrated Photon Upconversion Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell by Co-adsorption with Derivative of Pt-Porphyrin and Anthracene on Mesoporous TiO₂.

ABSTRACT: Photon upconversion via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA-UC) is a process that converts two lower-energy photons to a higher-energy photon, which is expected to increase the maximum solar cell efficiency beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit. To incorporate TTA-UC into a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), we used a co-adsorption approach, in which both a TTA-UC donor with an alkyl carboxylic acid chain and a TTA-UC acceptor dye were adsorbed onto mesoporous TiO₂. Incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency spectra and excitation intensity dependence indicated that a photocurrent was generated under irradiation at wavelengths above 490 nm by the TTA-UC mechanism. The power-conversion efficiency of the DSSC was increased to 0.72%, and the photocurrent contributed by TTA-UC was 0.036 mA cm^-2 under 1 sun irradiation.

SUBMITTER: Morifuji T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6649236 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

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Integrated Photon Upconversion Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell by Co-adsorption with Derivative of Pt-Porphyrin and Anthracene on Mesoporous TiO2.

Morifuji Tatsuro T Takekuma Yuya Y Nagata Morio M

ACS omega 20190628 6

Photon upconversion via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA-UC) is a process that converts two lower-energy photons to a higher-energy photon, which is expected to increase the maximum solar cell efficiency beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit. To incorporate TTA-UC into a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), we used a co-adsorption approach, in which both a TTA-UC donor with an alkyl carboxylic acid chain and a TTA-UC acceptor dye were adsorbed onto mesoporous TiO2. Incident photon-to-curre ...[more]

PMID: 31460229

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