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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2009
Koichiro Shigaki, Tokyo, JP;
Masayoshi Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
Teruhisa Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a dye-sensitized photovoltaic device in which a metal complex dye represented by Formula (1), or a salt thereof, is carried on a thin film of oxide semiconductor micrograins disposed on a substrate. (In Formula (1), mrepresents an integer from 1 to 2 and nrepresents an integer from 1 to 3. Xrepresents an oxygen atom or sulfur atom. Yand Yeach independently represent a thiocyanate group (—SCN) or isothiocyanate group (—NCS). Mand Mrepresent hydrogen atoms. Rand Rrepresent hydrogen atoms. Rand Reach independently represent a straight-chain alkyl group with 1 to 6 carbons. Further, when mis 2 and there are multiple of each of Rand R, each of Rand Rmay be the same as or different from one another.)