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Advanced materials and processes for polymer solar cell devices
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The rapidly expanding field of polymer and organic solar cells is reviewed in the context of materials, processes and devices that significantly deviate from the standard approach which involves rigid glass substrates, indium-tinoxide electrodes, spincoated layers of conjugated polymer/fullerene mixtures and evaporated metal electrodes in a flat multilayer geometry as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The rapidly expanding field of polymer and organic solar cells is reviewed in the context of materials, processes and devices that significantly deviate from the standard approach which involves rigid glass substrates, indium-tin-oxide electrodes, spincoated layers of conjugated polymer/fullerene mixtures and evaporated metal electrodes in a flat multilayer geometry. It is likely that significant advances can be found by pursuing many of these novel ideas further and the purpose of this review is to highlight these reports and hopefully spark new interest in materials and methods that may be performing less than the current state-of-the-art in their present form but that may have the potential to outperform these pending a larger investment in effort.read more
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Graphene based new energy materials
Yiqing Sun,Qiong Wu,Gaoquan Shi +2 more
TL;DR: Graphene, a one-atom layer of graphite, possesses a unique two-dimensional (2D) structure, high conductivity and charge carrier mobility, huge specific surface area, high transparency and great mechanical strength as mentioned in this paper.
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Rational Design of High Performance Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells
TL;DR: The research community has made great progress in the field of bulk heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cells since its inception in 1995 as mentioned in this paper and the power conversion efficiency (PCE) has increased from 1% in the 1990s to over 8% just recently.
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Stability of polymer solar cells.
Mikkel Jørgensen,Kion Norrman,Suren A. Gevorgyan,Thomas Tromholt,Birgitta Andreasen,Frederik C. Krebs +5 more
TL;DR: The developments in stability/degradation of OPVs in the last five years are reviewed, such as inverted device structures of the bulk heterojunction geometry device, which allows for more stable metal electrodes, the choice of more photostable active materials, the introduction of interfacial layers, and roll-to-roll fabrication.
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Tabulated values of the Shockley–Queisser limit for single junction solar cells
TL;DR: The detailed balance limit for solar cells presented by Shockley and Queisser in 1961 describes the ultimate efficiency of an ideal p-n junction solar cell illuminated by a black body with a surface temperature of 6000 K as mentioned in this paper.
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Upscaling of polymer solar cell fabrication using full roll-to-roll processing.
TL;DR: The presented devices are thus competitive for consumer electronics but ill-suited for on-grid electricity production in their current form.
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