Design and characterization of heteroleptic ruthenium complexes containing benzimidazole ligands for dye-sensitized solar cells: The effect of thiophene and alkyl substituents on photovoltaic performance

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2175-2182

  Huang, Wei Kai ^a   Wu, Hui Ping ^a   Lin, Pi Lun ^a   Diau, Eric Wei Guang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84874447863     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp3111869     Document Type: Article

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34. Because of the great feature for DSSC being operated under small light intensities, the stability test reported herein was performed at room temperature without imposing a strong irradiation. Under such a condition, the best performances of those devices were achieved at certain delayed times as we found in this report (e.g., 50 h for N719, 50-400 h for RD12, and 100-300 h for RD18).