Illumination (mW cm−2 ) Electrolyte support Jsc(mA cm−2 ) Voc (V) FF Efficiency (%)
100 None 12.30±0.12b 0.76±0.01 0.57±0.03 5.34±0.36
100 0.2mm PC film 11.470.31 0.76±0.02 0.49±0.04 4.29±0.39
100 0.05mm PC film 7.84±0.92 0.76±0.01 0.54±0.03 3.17±0.40
50 None 5.78±0.13 0.72±0.01 0.61±0.02 5.18±0.18
50 0.2mm PC film 5.64 0.73 0.58 4.70
50 0.05mm PC film 4.30±0.50 0.71±0.01 0.70±0.04 4.25±0.51
20 None 0.77±0.05 0.64±0.01 0.63±0.01 1.62±0.15
20 0.2mm PC film 0.84 0.66 0.69 1.89
20 0.05mm PC film 0.67±0.27 0.64±0.01 0.84±0.02 1.34±0.22
a Single-sealed cells with active area of 0.28 cm2; electrolyte consisting of 0.8M PMII/0.05M I2/0.5M NMBI in MPN.
b Mean ± standard deviation (N=3) except for 0.2 m PC film at 20 and 50 mW cm-2.
Table 1: Cell performance of as-prepared DSSCa with and without PC films.