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Item Open Access Optimization of distyryl-Bodipy chromophores for efficient panchromatic sensitization in dye sensitized solar cells(2011) Kolemen, S.; Cakmak, Y.; Ertem, E.; Bozdemir, O. A.; Erten-Ela, S.; Marszalek, M.; Yum, Jun-Ho; Zakeeruddin, S.; Nazeeruddin, M.; Gratzel, M.; Akkaya, E. U.Versatility of Bodipy (4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene) dyes was further expanded in recent dye-sensitized solar cell applications. Here we report a series of derivatives designed to address earlier problems in Bodipy sensitized solar cells. In the best case example, an overall efficiency of a modest 2.46% was achieved, but panchromatic nature of the dyes is quite impressive. This is the best reported efficiency in liquid electrolyte solar cells with Bodipy dyes as photosensitizers.Item Open Access Top-illuminated dye-sensitized solar cells with a room-temperature-processed ZnO photoanode on metal substrates and a Pt-coated Ga-doped ZnO counter electrode(IOP Publishing, 2011-01-11) Kyaw, A. K. K.; Sun, X. W.; Zhao, J. L.; Wang, J. X.; Zhao, D. W.; Wei, X. F.; Liu, X. W.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan; Wu, T.We report on top-illuminated, fluorine tin oxide/indium tin oxide-free (FTO/ITO-free), dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using room-temperature- processed ZnO layers on metal substrates as the working electrodes and Pt-coated Ga-doped ZnO layers (GZO) as the counter electrodes. These top-illuminated DSCs with GZO render comparable efficiency to those employing commercial FTO counter electrodes. Despite a lower current density, the top-illuminated DSCs result in a higher fill factor than conventional DSCs due to a low ohmic loss at the electrode/semiconductor interface. The effect of metal substrate on the performance of the resulting top-illuminated DSCs is also studied by employing various metals with different work functions. Ti is shown to be a suitable metal to be used as the working electrode in the top-illuminated device architecture owing to its low ohmic loss at the electrode/semiconductor interface, minimum catalytic activity on redox reactions and high resistance to corrosion by liquid electrolytes.