From their first introduction in 1991 by O'Regan and Grätzel , there are numerous studies on DSSCs. We compiled some recent reviews on DSSC research in Table 1. Table 1. Recent review and research articles on dye-sensitised solar cells. Refs. Dye-sensitized solar cells.
Advanced solar cells research is being carried out in the fields of liquid inks, up conversion, light absorbing dyes, quantum dot, organic/polymer solar cells, adaptive cells and perovskites solar cell. Among these, perovskite solar cell remains an important class of developing photovoltaic (Supreeth and Shreya, 2016).
A crucial step in the development of the next generation solar cells A team of KTU researchers has been synthesising and studying charge-transporting organic materials for several years. Previous experiments have focused more on molecules used for positive charge transfer in the perovskite solar cells.
In the last category, we covered the tandem solar cells, the bifacial solar cells, the cells based on hetero-junction with intrinsic thin layer, the fluorescent concentrator, the quantum-dot solar cells (with several variants), the dye-sensitized solar cells, the organic solar cells and the Perovskite solar cells.
We should markedly note that perovskite and perovskite-based cells are the most heavily studied/researched topic of the recent period, in all next generation solar cells.
This classification may not be appropriate if the recent developments are considered. Wafer based solar cells are regarded as the first-generation and the thin-film solar cells as the second-generation.