Abstract
Eight novel T shaped phenothiazine/carbazole based organic dyes with naphthalimide as π-spacer were designed, and the geometries, electronic structures, and optical features of these isolated dyes and dye-(TiO2)9 systems were investigated with density functional theory (DFT) and time dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations. Some quantify factors influencing the energy conversion efficiency (PCE) such as the light harvesting efficiency (LHE), electron injection driving force (ΔGinject) and dye regeneration driving force (ΔGreg) were also calculated for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) applications. It is found that these dyes show a good performance of electron injection and dye regeneration owing to the proper value of ΔGinject and ΔGreg. The optimized geometries of the non-planar molecular configuration of donor and the planar structure of the naphthalimide conjugated bridge are beneficial to efficient intramolecular charge transfer and the suppression of molecular aggregation. The properties about the electronic structure and absorption spectra indicate that replacement of benzene with thiophene unit near to cyanoacetic acid acceptor can generate more efficient conjugation effect and achieve red shift of absorption spectra, resulting a higher Jsc and Voc in DSSCs device. The theoretical results reveal that DTPH2, DTPH4, DTCA2 and DTCA4 would be used as potential sensitizers for DSSCs applications.
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