Research Article

UV Filtering of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: The Effects of Varying the UV Cut-Off upon Cell Performance and Incident Photon-to-Electron Conversion Efficiency

Table 4

Summary of I-V data for filtered and unfiltered, reverse illuminated cells.

Dye-filter (V) (mA cm−2) (mW)Fill factor%

N719-unfiltered0.721 4.62 2.31 0.77 2.56 (
N719- 3200.707 4.12 2.03 0.77 2.25
N719- 3850.706 4.17 2.06 0.78 2.28
N719- 4200.702 4.07 1.99 0.77 ( 2.20
N719- 4800.695 3.58 1.74 0.78 1.93

Dye-filter (V) (mA cm−2) (mW)Fill factor%

Z907-unfiltered0.66 2.04 0.88 0.73 0.98
Z907- 3200.649 1.79 0.75 0.72 0.83
Z907- 3850.647 1.79 0.75 0.71 0.83
Z907- 4200.644 1.74 0.72 0.71 0.80
Z907- 4800.641 1.55 0.64 0.71 0.71

Dye-filter (V) (mA cm−2) (mW)Fill factor%

N749-unfiltered0.674 2.83 1.27 0.74 1.41
N749- 3200.657 2.54 1.08 0.72 1.24
N749- 3850.658 2.58 1.13 0.74 1.25
N749- 4200.654 2.52 1.10 0.74 1.21
N749- 4800.647 2.28 0.98 0.74 1.09