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Device Modeling of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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We review the concepts and methods of modeling of the dye-sensitized solar cell, starting from fundamental electron transfer theory, and using phenomenological transport-conservation equations. The models revised here are aimed at describing the components of the current–voltage curve of the solar cell, based on small perturbation experimental methods, and to such an end, a range of phenomena occurring in the nanoparticulate electron transport materials, and at interfaces, are covered. Disorder plays a major role in the definition of kinetic parameters, and we introduce single particle as well as collective function definitions of diffusion coefficient and electron lifetime. Based on these fundamental considerations, applied tools of analysis of impedance spectroscopy are described, and we outline in detail the theory of recombination via surface states that is successful to describe the measured recombination resistance and lifetime.

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We thank the following agencies for support of this research. Juan Bisquert’s research is supported by Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia under project HOPE CSD2007-00007, Generalitat Valenciana (ISIC/2012/008). Rudolph A. Marcus’s research is supported by ARO, ONR and NSF agencies. Rudolph A. Marcus contributed in Sects. 14 and 15 of this chapter.

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Bisquert, J., Marcus, R.A. (2013). Device Modeling of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. In: Beljonne, D., Cornil, J. (eds) Multiscale Modelling of Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics. Topics in Current Chemistry, vol 352. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/128_2013_471

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