Insight on the choice of sensitizers/dyes for dye sensitized solar cells: A review

A Sen, MH Putra, AK Biswas, AK Behera, A Groβ - Dyes and Pigments, 2023 - Elsevier
In this review, a discussion on renewable sources of energy with clear focus on solar cell
applications is presented. Especially, possible future directions for development of dye …

Advances in phthalocyanine-sensitized solar cells (PcSSCs)

L Martín-Gomis, F Fernández-Lázaro… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Phthalocyanines are among the most promising of efficient molecules for commercial
application in dye sensitized solar cells due to their extremely intense red absorbance and …

Hybrid TiO2–multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNTs) photoanodes for efficient dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)

U Mehmood, IA Hussein, K Harrabi, MB Mekki… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on TiO 2/MWCNTs composite with varying
concentrations of CNTs (0, 0.03. 0.06, 0.09, 0.15, and 0.21 wt%), fabricated using N3 dye as …

Insights from density functional theory on the feasibility of modified reactive dyes as dye sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cell applications

SS Dindorkar, A Yadav - Solar, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, reactive dyes have attracted a lot of attention for dye-sensitized solar cell
applications. This study endeavors to design dye sensitizers with enhanced efficiency for …

Modulation of the electronic and spectroscopic properties of Zn (II) phthalocyanines by their substitution pattern

SZ Topal, Ü İşci, U Kumru, D Atilla, AG Gürek… - Dalton …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Four isomerically pure octasubstituted zinc phthalocyanines with variations in the
attachment atom and positions of the substituents were selected for a systematic …

Theoretical study of benzene/thiophene based photosensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)

U Mehmood, IA Hussein, M Daud, S Ahmed… - Dyes and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Complex organic compounds with benzene/thiophene as pi-segments are inspected as
photosensitizers for applications in dye sensitized solar cells. To better understand the …

Aromaticity–photovoltaic property relationship of triphenylamine-based D-π-A dyes: leads from DFT calculations

R Venkatraman, SVK Panneer… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
D-π-A-based dyes find a wide range of applications in molecular electronics and
photovoltaics in general and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) in particular. We speculated …

Electronic and optical properties of metalloporphyrins of zinc on TiO 2 cluster in dye-sensitized solar-cells (DSSC). A quantum chemistry study

F Mendizabal, R Mera-Adasme, WH Xu, D Sundholm - RSC advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar-cell (DSSC) systems have been investigated by calculating light-
absorption and electron-injection processes of the LD13 ([5, 15-bis (2, 6-(1, 1-dimethylethyl) …

The nature of the donor motif in acceptor-bridge-donor dyes as an influence in the electron photo-injection mechanism in DSSCs

X Zarate, S Schott-Verdugo… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The combination and balance of acceptor (A)-bridge-donor (D) architecture of molecules
confer suitable attributes and/or properties to act as efficient light-harvesting and sensitizers …

The second-order nonlinear optical properties of novel triazolo [3, 4-b][1, 3, 4] thiadiazole derivative chromophores using DFT calculations

B Waddar, SR Parne, S Gandi, GR Prasanth… - Structural Chemistry, 2024 - Springer
Many organic chromophores possess excellent nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. In spite
of this, the performance of these chromophores in second-order nonlinear optical …