再生能源的需求增加，染料敏化太陽能電池具有多樣性及低的製造成本，因而被廣泛的研究其光電上的應用。染料敏化太陽能電池中，光敏染料是其中一個重要元件，其吸收太陽光輻射，並將其轉換為電能。至今，染料敏化太陽能電池的文獻中大部分多是以具有雙吡啶環和多吡啶環的含釕金屬染料為主。但釕金屬在地球上的含量並不豐富，因此增加了其製造的成本。於是我們設計了一種新的類型的有機染料能與其他的金屬行成錯合物，例如鈷、鎳、銅、鋅、鈀、鉑。希望這一系列含非釕金屬錯合物具有不錯的光電轉換效率。 With increasing renewable energy demands, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are being explored extensively for photovoltaic applications because of their versatility and low cost of manufacture. In these cells the sensitizer is one of the key components, harvesting the solar radiation and converting it to electric current. To date, the only ruthenium sensitizers for DSSC applications that have been described in the literature are those bearing bipyridine or polypyridine ligands. But ruthenium metal is not full in the earth，therefore enhances the cost of manufacture. We design the new class of organic dye with different metal like Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Pd, Pt were used complex with compound as sensitizer. We hope the kind of Metal salen-ligand complexes could get good performance in DSSCs.
