Research Progress of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

The structure and working principle of dye-sensitized solar cells(DSSC),and the species of electrolyte used in dye-sensitized solar cells were introduced in this paper.And the developments of organic solvent electrolyte,ionic liquid electrolyte,quasi-solid electrolyte,organic hole transporting materials and inorganic p-type semiconductor materials were introduced in detail.The latest results about the critical technology and the industrialized research on dye-sensitized solar cells were reviewed.