Polymer Electrolytes in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

摘要

Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have received a great significance in the field of photovoltaic (PV) devices. In recent day's polymer materials have been investigated extensively in solar cell application especially in DSSC. Polymer electrolytes are probable candidate to fabricate stable and efficient DSSC devices, since its unique ionic conductivity, good thermal, long-term stability and flexible properties. Redox couple based liquid electrolytes producing several potential problem therefore polymer electrolytes believed as promising alternative tool to replace the liquid electrolytes. This review summarizes the overview on the presently identified polymer electrolytes in DSSC and also discuss prospects of polymer electrolytes such as solid-state polymer electrolytes and quasi-solid-state (gel) polymer electrolytes in solar cell performance, their progress in a detailed manner.