Characterizations of Efficient Charge Transfer and Photoelectric Performance in the Cosensitization of Solar Cells

Abstract

Dyes D35 and XY1 for solar cells have been investigated theoretically with the quantum chemistry method and visualized 3D cube representation. Some important information (such as absorption spectra, molecular orbitals, reorganization energy, chemical reactivity, driving force of electron injection, light-harvesting efficiency, as well as the dipole moment, etc.) has been studied to explain the efficiency of dyes, and the visualized intramolecular and intermolecular charge transfer process and fast dynamic process of the interface electron transfer have been studied to estimate the strength of electron transfer in cosensitization. Calculated results indicated that the improved absorption spectra range, fast electron injection, and the larger dipole moment significantly promote the cosensitized solar cell efficiency in comparison with isolated Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs).

Keywords

• DSSCs
• charge transfer
• cosensitized solar cell
• density functional theory