Issue 49, 2014
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Chemical Communications

A quinoxaline-fused tetrathiafulvalene-based sensitizer for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells†

Anneliese Amacher,a   Chenyi Yi,*b   Jiabao Yang,bc   Martin Peter Bircher,a   Yongchun Fu,a   Michele Cascella,d   Michael Grätzel,b   Silvio Decurtinsa  and  Shi-Xia Liu*a  

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a Departement für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
E-mail: liu@dcb.unibe.ch
Fax: +41 31 6314399
Tel: +41 31 6314296

b Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Science and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 6, CH-1050 Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail: chenyi.yi@epfl.ch
Fax: +41 21 693 61 00
Tel: +41 21 693 31 12

c Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, People's Republic of China

d Department of Chemistry and Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CTCC), University of Oslo, PO Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway

Abstract

A new quinoxaline-fused tetrathiafulvalene-based sensitizer has been prepared and characterized. The resulting power conversion efficiency of 6.47% represents the best performance to date for tetrathiafulvalene-sensitized solar cells.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC02696A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Apr 2014
Accepted
01 May 2014
First published
02 May 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 6540-6542

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A quinoxaline-fused tetrathiafulvalene-based sensitizer for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

A. Amacher, C. Yi, J. Yang, M. P. Bircher, Y. Fu, M. Cascella, M. Grätzel, S. Decurtins and S. Liu, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 6540 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02696A

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