Ruthenium dye-sensitized SnO2/TiO2 coupled solar cells

The photoelectrochemical behaviors of RuL2(NCS)2 dye-sensitized SnO2/TiO2 coupled solar cell was studied and compared with TiO2 single system. The coupled system shows higher incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE) value than the single system. A maximum IPCE value in the coupled system with 3.5 μm-thick SnO2 and 7 μm-thick TiO2 attained 82.4% at 530 nm wavelength. The higher IPCE value in the coupled system is attributed to the charge separation by fast electron transfer process from the excited RuL2(NCS)2 dye to TiO2 to SnO2 in the system with different energy level.