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Integrating a Triplet-triplet Annihilation Up-conversion System to Enhance Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Response to Sub-bandgap Light
Published on: September 12, 2014
Supramolecular light harvesting antennas to enhance absorption cross-section in dye-sensitized solar cells
Julien Warnan1, Yann Pellegrin, Errol Blart
1CEISAM, Université de Nantes, CNRS, 2 rue de la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes cedex 3, France.
Abstract:
Doping a zinc porphyrin based-sensitizer with antenna molecules, axially held by metallo-supramolecular interactions, enhances the light-harvesting efficiency and the overall photo-conversion efficiency of the solar cells by about 30%.

