Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10248871 | Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells | 2005 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs), as a new innovative technology, were developed very quickly in the past decade since Prof. M. Grätzel (EPFL) made the breakthrough in 1991 (Nature 353 (1991) 737). While photoelectric conversion efficiency of 11.04% was achieved last year in EPFL (J. Photocem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 164 (2004) 3), 8.2% was achieved with a size of 2.36Â cm2 in 2001 by the ECN group (Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 84 (2004) 125), which is a very exciting result for large scale DSCs. As potential low cost solar cells, DSC module and the panel's efficiency and stability are still critical problems to the way of marketing. We show our research in the test and design of modules and panels in the past few years at our institute. We have achieved photoelectric conversion efficiency around 6% with 15Ã20Â cm2 module, and our future primary 500Â W DSC power station with the same performance 40Ã60Â cm2 panel is under way.
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Authors
Songyuan Dai, Kongjia Wang, Jian Weng, Yifeng Sui, Yang Huang, Shangfeng Xiao, Shuanghong Chen, Linhua Hu, Fantai Kong, Xu Pan, Chengwu Shi, Li Guo,