A solid-state solar cell sensitized with mercurochrome

摘要

Finding a low cost solar cell as an alter-native to conventional silicon solar cell is the aim of many investigations. From this point of view, dye-sensitized solar cells have attracted much attention. Fab-rication of a dye-sensitized photo-electro-chemical cell with efficiency of over 10% by a Swiss group was a breakthrough in this field. An efficient dye-sensitized solid-state solar cell was fabricated by Tennakone et al. using a natural pigment, cyanidin as a sensitizer and p-CuI as a solid statehole collector.