An alternative ionic liquid based electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells

BoFei Xue; HongXia Wang; YongSheng Hu; Hong Li; ZhaoXiang Wang; QingBo Meng; XueJie Huang; O. Sato; LiQuan Chen; A. Fujishima

doi:10.1039/B412647E

An alternative ionic liquid based electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells

BoFei Xue,^a HongXia Wang,^a YongSheng Hu,^a Hong Li,^a ZhaoXiang Wang,^a QingBo Meng,*^a XueJie Huang,^a O. Sato,^b LiQuan Chen^a and A. Fujishima^b

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^a Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
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^b Research Laboratory for Optical Science, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, KSP BLDG. EAST 412, Sakado, Kawasaki, Japan

Abstract

An ionic liquid based, environmentally friendly electrolyte LiI(C₂H₅OH)₄–I₂ was used as the electrolyte to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) with energy conversion efficiency of 4.9% under AM 1.5 (100 mW cm⁻²) irradiation.

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An alternative ionic liquid based electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells

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