Characteristics of High Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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Abstract

Impedance spectroscopy was applied to investigate the characteristics of dye-sensitized nanostructured TiO2 solar cells (DSC) with high efficiencies of light to electricity conversion of 11.1% and 10.2%. The different parameters, that is, chemical capacitance, steady-state transport resistance, transient diffusion coefficient, and charge-transfer (recombination) resistance, have been interpreted in a unified and consistent framework, in which an exponential distribution of the localized states in the TiO2 band gap plays a central role. The temperature variation of the chemical diffusion coefficient dependence on the Fermi-level position has been observed consistently with the standard multiple trapping model of electron transport in disordered semiconductors. A Tafel dependence of the recombination resistance dependence on bias potential has been rationalized in terms of the charge transfer from a distribution of surface states using the Marcus model of electron transfer. The current-potential curve of the solar cells has been independently constructed from the impedance parameters, allowing a separate analysis of the contribution of different resistive processes to the overall conversion efficiency.

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