@article {Park:2017:2158-5849:43, title = "Coplanar D--A organic sensitizers featuring a thienylethynyl spacer for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells", journal = "Materials Express", parent_itemid = "infobike://asp/me", publishercode ="asp", year = "2017", volume = "7", number = "1", publication date ="2017-02-01T00:00:00", pages = "43-50", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "2158-5849", url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/me/2017/00000007/00000001/art00006", doi = "doi:10.1166/mex.2017.1348", keyword = "THIOPHENE, METAL-FREE ORGANIC DYE, THEINYLETHYNYL, DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL, NATURAL BOND ORBITAL", author = "Park, Kwang-Won and Ahn, Sungwoo and Baek, Myung Hoon and Lim, Dong-Suk and Wiles, Alan A. and Kim, Myung Gil and Hong, Jongin", abstract = "We simply synthesize coplanar metal-free organic sensitizers featuring a thienylethynyl spacer, CSD-01 and CSD-02, from commercially available thiophene derivatives. The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on the CSD-01 and CSD-02 without any coadsorbate show the power conversion efficiencies () of 4.60% and 5.32%, respectively. The study in the dye-adsorption time suggests the increase in the organic DSSC performance with decreasing soaking time.", }