Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Mathematical Modelling, and Materials Design and Optimization

Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Mathematical Modelling, Optimization and Design presents the latest information as edited from leaders in the field. It covers advances in DSSC design, fabrication and mathematical modelling and optimization, providing a comprehensive coverage of various DSSC advances that includes different system scales, from electronic to macroscopic level, and a consolidation of the results with fundamentals. The book is extremely useful as a monograph for graduate students and researchers, but is also a comprehensive, general reference on state-of-the-art techniques in modelling, optimization and design of DSSCs.

Includes chapter contributions from worldwide leaders in the fieldOffers first-principles of modelling solar cells with different system scales, from the electronic to macroscopic levelReferences, in a single resource, state-of-the-art techniques in modelling, optimization and design of DSSC

1. Overview of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells 2. Mathematical Modeling of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells 3. Insights into Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells from Macroscopic-Scale First-Principles Mathematical Modeling 4. Charge Separation: From the Topology of Molecular Electronic Transitions to the Dye/Semiconductor Interfacial Energetics and Kinetics 5. Linear-Response and Real-Time, Time-Dependent DFT for Predicting Optoelectronic Properties of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells 6. Photovoltaic Performance of Natural Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study 7. Recent Advances on Porphyrin Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells 8. Beyond the Limitations of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells 9. Upconversion-Enhanced Dye Sensitized Solar Cells 10. Insights into Graphene-based Materials as Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells 11. Economical and Highly Efficient Non-Metal Counter Electrode Materials for Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells