Logitech has announced that it will use dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) to power tablet computers. The cells were first produced by Michael Graetzel and co-workers at the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. The technology has been improved and developed and is now at a stage where it is finding application in these portable devices. Read the press release here.
Professor Graetzel’s has published many excellent articles on his DSSC work in Energy & Environmental Science. Read some of his exciting recent articles today:
High-conversion-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells: molecular engineering on D-A-π-A featured organic indoline dyes
Yongzhen Wu, Magdalena Marszalek, Shaik M Zakeeruddin, Qiong Zhang, He Tian, Michael Grätzel and Weihong Zhu
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE22108J
Novel nanostructures for next generation dye-sensitized solar cells
Nicolas Tétreault and Michael Grätzel
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE03242B
Influence of the interfacial charge-transfer resistance at the counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells employing cobalt redox shuttles
Hoi Nok Tsao, Julian Burschka, Chenyi Yi, Florian Kessler, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin and Michael Grätzel
DOI: 10.1039/C1EE02389F
Panchromatic engineering for dye-sensitized solar cells
Jun-Ho Yum, Etienne Baranoff, Sophie Wenger, Md. K. Nazeeruddin and Michael Grätzel
DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00536C
