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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
May. 26, 2004
Applicants:
Yusuke Suzuki, Miyagi, JP;
Masahiro Morooka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Noda, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/102 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electrode is composed of a carbon carrying a metal and a binder polymer, and it is used as a counter electrode of a dye-sensitized solar cell. The metal carried by carbon is at least one kind of metal selected from the group consisting of Pt, Ru, Co, Ti, Ni, Al and Au. The carbon is needle-like carbon, fullerene, carbon nanotube, conductive carbon black, or the like, and its specific surface area is equal to or larger than 100 m/g.