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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2010
Hidekazu Kawasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Itami, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuya Isobe, Tokyo, JP;
Hideya Miwa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazukuni Nishimura, Tokyo, JP;
Mayuko Ushiro, Tokyo, JP;
Hidekazu Kawasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Itami, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuya Isobe, Tokyo, JP;
Hideya Miwa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazukuni Nishimura, Tokyo, JP;
Mayuko Ushiro, Tokyo, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a photoelectric conversion element for which a novel compound (dye) exhibiting excellent adsorption to an oxide semiconductor and exhibiting high photoelectric conversion efficiency is used, and also provided is a solar cell employing the photoelectric conversion element. Disclosed is a dye-sensitizing type photoelectric conversion element possessing at least a pair of facing electrodes, a semiconductor layer possessing a semiconductor and a sensitizing dye supported on the semiconductor, and a charge transport layer, wherein the semiconductor layer and the charge transport layer are provided between the facing electrodes, and wherein the sensitizing dye comprises a compound represented by the following Formula (1).