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John N Clifford1, Emilio Palomares, Md K Nazeeruddin
1Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Chemistry Department, Imperial College, South Kensington, Exhibition Road, SW 7 2AY London, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We report a method for achieving multilayer co-sensitization of nanocrystalline TiO2 films. The method is based upon an aluminum isopropoxide treatment of the monosensitized film prior to deposition of a second sensitizer. Appropriate selection of sensitizer dyes allows vectorial, multistep, electron transfer processes, resulting in a suppression of interfacial charge recombination and a significantly improved photovoltaic device performance relative to single-layer co-sensitization devices.

