The present invention relates to a dye-sensitized solar cell module, and more particularly, to a dye-sensitized solar cell module capable of minimizing a burst phenomenon of the dye-sensitized solar cell module caused by the bubbles by preventing occurrence of bubbles in an electrolyte solution, and securing reliability by preventing separation of a dye adsorbed onto a oxide semiconductor, and a dye-sensitized solar cell including the same.

A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) element includes at least one DSC. The DSC includes a first base material having a transparent substrate, a second base material facing the first base material, an oxide semiconductor layer provided between the first and second base materials, and a sealing portion connecting the first and second base materials. One transparent substrate is provided for the at least one DSC, and a coating layer covering a light receiving surface, which is opposite to the second base material, of the transparent substrate and transmitting light is provided on the first base material. The coating layer includes an annular peripheral portion, and a center portion provided at the inner side of the peripheral portion. An average thickness of the peripheral portion is smaller than a maximum thickness of the center portion, and the coating layer has a refractive index higher than that of the transparent substrate.

In various embodiments, photovoltaic modules are hermetically sealed by providing a first glass sheet, a photovoltaic device disposed on the first glass sheet, and a second glass sheet, a gap being defined between the first and second glass sheets, disposing a glass powder within the gap, and heating the powder to seal the glass sheets.

The present invention relates to a dye-sensitized solar cell, and in the present invention, in order to substantially increase the overall outer path line of the electrolyte injection hole, a structure of a corresponding electrolyte injection hole is improved such that the structure comprises: an inlet part exposed to the outside of a reception cell; a delivery part, which extends in a direction differing from that of the inlet part while being connected to the inlet part; and an outlet part, which extends in a direction differing from that of the delivery part while being connected to the delivery part and the reception cell, thereby inducing a large increase in the overall path of a tiny gap, which is formed between an interface of the electrolyte injection hole and a bonding stopper filled in the electrolyte injection hole.

A method for producing a solar cell, including: an electrolyte-supplying step of supplying an electrolyte onto a plate-shaped first electrode at a region thereof positioned between a pair of first sealing portions respectively provided along two opposing lateral sides of the plate-shaped first electrode; an electrodes-laminating step of superposing a second electrode on the first electrode gradually from one end side toward the other end side as viewed in a direction along the lateral sides of the first electrode while bonding the second electrode to the first electrode at the first sealing portions, the second electrode including a flexible plate-shaped substrate having a hole penetrating through the substrate in a thicknesswise direction thereof and capable of discharging the electrolyte therethrough; and a sealing step of bonding the first electrode and the second electrode at a pair of second sealing portions.

A dye-sensitised solar cell according to the present invention allows a remaining sector of an undamaged partition wall or remaining arranged partition walls to perform their original role normally even though a part of a sector of a partition wall that has been divided by partition wall division slits or a part of partition walls that are consecutively arranged is damaged due to an increase in the volume of the electrolyte resulting from a temperature rise and an increase in the pressure inside an electrolyte accommodation cell resulting from the increase in the volume of the electrolyte by additionally forming the partition division slits inside the partition wall separating electrolyte accommodation cells capable of dividing the corresponding partition wall into a plurality of sectors, or by consecutively arranging the plurality of partition walls, and can thereby solve various problems resulting from damage of a partition wall.

Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including a first electrode that includes a photosensitive layer, which includes a light absorbing agent, and a second electrode. The light absorbing agent includes a compound having a perovskite-type crystal structure that includes a cation of a cationic organic group A, a cation of a metal atom M other than the element of Group 1, and an anion of an anionic atom X. A hole transport layer, which includes an organic hole transporting material, is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic hole transporting material has a molecular weight of 6,000 or less and includes halogen, a halogenated alkyl group, or a group represented by R.sup.AX*, where X represents S, NR.sup.B, or O, R.sup.A and R.sup.B represent a halogenated alkyl group, and * represents a bonding position.

A dye-sensitized solar cell element has at least one dye-sensitized solar cell, the dye-sensitized solar cell is equipped with a conductive substrate having a transparent substrate and a transparent conductive layer provided on one surface of the transparent substrate, a counter substrate facing the conductive substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the conductive substrate or the counter substrate, and an annular sealing portion bonding the conductive substrate and the counter substrate. The transparent conductive layer has a main body portion disposed on an inner side of the sealing portion, a groove is formed in the transparent conductive layer, and at least a part of the groove has a first groove formed along an external shape of the sealing portion, and an insulating material also continuously covers an edge portion of the main body portion as well as enters into at least a part of the first groove.

In various embodiments, photovoltaic modules are hermetically sealed by providing a first glass sheet, a photovoltaic device disposed on the first glass sheet, and a second glass sheet, a gap being defined between the first and second glass sheets, disposing a glass powder within the gap, and heating the powder to seal the glass sheets.

An aspect of the present disclosure is a photoelectrochemical device that includes a first cell that includes a first semiconductor alloy, a capping layer that includes a second semiconductor alloy, and a passivating layer that includes a third semiconductor alloy, where the passivating layer is positioned between the first cell and the capping layer, and at least a portion of the capping layer is configured to be in direct contact with an electrolyte.