Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ryosuke Yamanaka

Liyuan Han

Atsushi Fukui

Kazuhiro Emoto

Ryoichi Komiya

A light transmitting substrate having at least a light receiving surface, a first electrode located on the light transmitting substrate, a collector electrode located on at least a part of the first electrode and formed from a metal thin film, a photoelectric conversion portion located on an upper surface of the first electrode or the collector electrode, carrying a photosensitizer, and immersed in a carrier transport material, an insulating frame portion surrounding sides of the photoelectric conversion portion, and a second electrode located to be opposed to the first electrode above the photoelectric conversion portion are provided. Relation of Isc&#xd7;Rh&#x3c;0.05&#xd7;Voc is satisfied, where Isc represents a short-circuit current value of a dye-sensitized solar cell, Rh represents a total value of electrical resistance values of the collector electrode, the first electrode, and the second electrode, and Voc represents an open circuit voltage value of the dye-sensitized solar cell.

Photoelectric conversion element and photoelectric conversion module

A dye-sensitized solar cell comprising a porous semiconductor layer in which a dye is adsorbed and an electrolyte which are sandwiched between a transparent conductive film formed on a surface of a transparent substrate and a conductive substrate, wherein the electrolyte is retained in a crosslinked polymer compound.

Dye-sensitized solar cell and method of manufacturing the same

A dye-sensitizing solar cell comprising: a first substrate whose surface is at least conductive; a second substrate on which a conductive layer is formed, the second substrate being transparent, the first and second substrates being spaced by a distance with the conductive surfaces of the first and second substrates opposite to each other; a semiconductor layer having a dye adsorbed thereon, the semiconductor layer being formed on one of the conductive surfaces; a glass frit for sealing peripheral edges of the first and second substrates; and a redox electrolyte which is filled between the first and second substrates.

Dye-sensitizing solar cell, method for manufacturing dye-sensitizing solar cell and solar cell module

A photovoltaic cell comprises an electrode layer, a photovoltaic layer, a hole transport layer, a conductive layer and a counter electrode layer stacked in this order.

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Gojo, Japan

Ryosuke Yamanaka