Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dye sensitization photoelectric converter
- Patent Title (中): 染料敏化光电转换器
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Application No.: US12223562Application Date: 2007-01-31
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Publication No.: US08415558B2Publication Date: 2013-04-09
- Inventor: Reiko Yoneya , Yusuke Suzuki , Masahiro Morooka
- Applicant: Reiko Yoneya , Yusuke Suzuki , Masahiro Morooka
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2006-025275 20060202; JP2006-348822 20061226
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/051554 WO 20070131
- International Announcement: WO2007/088871 WO 20070809
- Main IPC: H01M14/00
- IPC: H01M14/00 ; H01L31/04

Abstract:
A dye-sensitized photoelectric converter with enhanced light absorptance and photoelectric conversion efficiency is provided. The dye-sensitized photoelectric converter includes a transparent substrate (e.g., glass), a (negative) electrode composed of a transparent conductive layer such as FTO (fluorine-doped tin(IV) oxide SnO2), a semiconductor layer holding multiple types of photosensitizing dyes, an electrolyte layer, a counter (positive) electrode, a counter substrate, and a sealing medium (not illustrated). In some embodiments, the multiple types of photosensitizing dyes have minimum excitation energies that are different from one another. In some embodiments, the multiple types of dyes have steric configurations that are different relative to one another.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090217979A1 Dye Sensitization Photoelectric Converter Public/Granted day:2009-09-03
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