Strategies for Optimizing the Performance of NIR Absorbing Squaraine Dyes
Suraj Soman a b
a Photosciences & Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences & Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
b Network of Institutes for Solar Energy (NISE), India
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV16)
Swansea, United Kingdom, 2016 June 29th - July 1st
Organizers: James Durrant, Henry Snaith and David Worsley
Oral, Suraj Soman, presentation 021
Publication date: 28th March 2016

In DSCs, sensitizers play a vital role which lead to extensive research in developing new dye molecules to harvest the entire visible and NIR region of sunlight. In spite of all the advantages, the relatively higher cost and scarcity of Ru metal along with the exhibited absorption limited to the visible range necessitates the need for sensitizers that can absorb in the NIR region.1,2

Metal free organic dyes proved to be alternative sources for the metal bound sensitizers owing to their higher molar absorption coefficients, tunable photophysical and electrochemical properties, ease of structural modifications and cost effectiveness.3 Among the metal free dyes squaraines are well known for intense absorption in the NIR region and flexibility for synthetic modifications.4,5 Even though these dyes are endowed with better absorption there are other parameters that need to be optimized in a way to circumvent the present limitations in performance. My presentation will involve some of the engineering strategies that we used in a way to tune the energetics that led to performance enhancement.

References

1. L. Han,A. Islam, H. Chen, C.Malapaka, B.Chiranjeevi, S. Zhang, X. Yang and M. Yanagida, Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 6057.

2. Y. Numata, S. P. Singh, A. Islam, M. Iwamura, A. Imai, K. Nozaki and L. Han, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2013, 23, 1817.

3. A. Hagfeldt, G. Boschloo, L. C. Sun, L. Kloo and H. Pettersson, Chem. Rev., 2010, 110, 6595.

4. S. Alex, U. Santhosh and S. Das, J. Photochem. Photobiol., A, 2005, 172, 63.

5. S. Soman, M. A. Rahim, S. Lingamoorthy, C. H. Suresh and S. Das, PhysChemChemPhys., 2015, 17, 23095.



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