Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient lighting

@article{Freitag2017DyesensitizedSC,  title={Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient lighting},  author={Marina Freitag and Jo{\"e}l Teuscher and Yasemin Saygili and Xiaoyu Zhang and Fabrizio Giordano and Paul Liska and Jianli Hua and Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin and Jacques‐E. Moser and Michael Gr{\"a}tzel and Anders Hagfeldt},  journal={Nature Photonics},  year={2017},  volume={11},  pages={372 - 378},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10780585}}
Solar cells that operate efficiently under indoor lighting are of great practical interest as they can serve as electric power sources for portable electronics and devices for wireless sensor networks or the Internet of Things. Here, we demonstrate a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) that achieves very high power-conversion efficiencies (PCEs) under ambient light conditions. Our photosystem combines two judiciously designed sensitizers, coded D35 and XY1, with the copper complex Cu(II/I)(tmby) as… 

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