Author/Authors :
Gururaj M. Shivashimpi، نويسنده , , Gururaj M. and Pandey، نويسنده , , Shyam S. and Watanabe، نويسنده , , Rie and Fujikawa، نويسنده , , Naotaka and Ogomi، نويسنده , , Yuhei and Yamaguchi، نويسنده , , Yoshihiro and Hayase، نويسنده , , Shuzi، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Aiming toward the development of far-red sensitive organic dyes, unsymmetrical squaraine dye bearing direct cyanoacrylate functionalized indole ring has been synthesized and characterized along with its utilization as photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells. Upon dye-sensitized solar cell fabrication, this sensitizer exhibits its potentiality as a good far-red sensitive dye having photoconversion efficiency of 5.03% under the simulated solar irradiation at AM 1.5 conditions. This opens up further possibility to design efficient far-red sensitive dyes by judicious implementation of suitable donor moieties with extended π-conjugation.
Keywords :
Squaraine dye , Cyanoacrylate anchoring , Dye-sensitized solar cells , Far-red sensitization
