Patent ID: 8237046

Claim:
A dye-sensitized solar cell module comprising: first photoelectric conversion elements each comprising a transparent conductive layer, a porous photoelectric conversion layer adsorbing a dye, an electrolytic layer, a catalyst layer, and a conductive layer laminated in this order on a transparent substrate; second photoelectric conversion elements each comprising a transparent conductive layer, a catalyst layer, an electrolytic layer, a porous photoelectric conversion layer adsorbing a dye, and a conductive layer laminated in this order on a transparent substrate; the transparent substrate defining a transparent substrate side of the conversion elements; and a supporting substrate formed on the respective conductive layers of the first and second photoelectric conversion elements that define a supporting substrate side of the conversion elements, wherein one or more first photoelectric conversion elements and one or more second photoelectric conversion elements are alternately arranged in parallel between the transparent substrate and the supporting substrate, and the neighboring first photoelectric conversion elements and second photoelectric conversion elements are electrically connected in series; the neighboring first photoelectric conversion element and second photoelectric conversion element both electrically connected in series are arranged orthogonal to the thickness of the dye-sensitized solar cell module; the transparent substrate side of the conversion elements being a light receiving side of the conversion elements and the supporting substrate side of the conversion elements being a non-light receiving side; and wherein the first photoelectric conversion elements and the second photoelectric conversion elements being different in at least one among the composition of the electrolytic layers; the thickness of the porous photoelectric conversion layers; the width of the porous photoelectric conversion layers; the average particle diameter of the semiconductor particles composing the porous photoelectric conversion layers, in order that the first and second photoelectric conversion elements provide substantially the same amount of the electric current, and when the short circuit current density of the first photoelectric conversion elements is defined as Jd and the short circuit current density of the second photoelectric conversion elements is defined as Jc, (Jc/Jd)>0.7 is satisfied.