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Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 38)
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Nanostructured, Active Organic–Metal Junctions for Highly Efficient Charge Generation and Extraction in Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells
TL;DR: In this paper, a facile one-step method for periodic nanostructuring of organic solar cells is presented, which combined enhanced light trapping and improved charge extraction leading to up to a 10% increase in power conversion efficiency of planar devices.
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Solution processable, precursor based zinc oxide buffer layers for 4.5% efficient organic tandem solar cells
Andreas Puetz,Florian Steiner,Jan Mescher,Manuel Reinhard,Nico Christ,Dimitar I. Kutsarov,Heinz Kalt,Uli Lemmer,Alexander Colsmann +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, regular and inverted organic tandem solar cells from poly[ N -9′-hepta-decanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4′,7′-di-2-thienyl-2′,1′,3′-benzothiadiazole): [6,6]-phenyl C 70 -butyric acid methyl ester (PCDTBT:PC 71 BM) with power conversion efficiencies of up to 4.5%.
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Q.ANTUM – Q-Cells Next Generation High-Power Silicon Cell & Module Concept
P. Wawer,Jörg Müller,M. Fischer,D. Rychtarik,S. Rupp,T. Kaden,J. Wendt,K. Suva,B. Barkenfelt,G. Zimmermann,A. Mohr,C. Klenke,A. Eifler,H.-C. Ploigt,S. Peters,A.A. Stekolnikov,S. Hermann,Bernhard Kloter,D. Manger,P. Engelhart +19 more
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TOF-SIMS investigation of degradation pathways occurring in a variety of organic photovoltaic devices–the ISOS-3 inter-laboratory collaboration
Birgitta Andreasen,David M. Tanenbaum,David M. Tanenbaum,Martin Hermenau,Eszter Voroshazi,Matthew T. Lloyd,Yulia Galagan,Birger Zimmernann,Suleyman Kudret,Wouter Maes,Laurence Lutsen,Dirk Vanderzande,Uli Würfel,Ronn Andriessen,Roland Rösch,Harald Hoppe,Gerardo Teran-Escobar,Monica Lira-Cantu,Agnès Rivaton,Gülsah Y. Uzunoglu,David S. Germack,Markus Hösel,Henrik Friis Dam,Mikkel Jørgensen,Suren A. Gevorgyan,Morten Vesterager Madsen,Eva Bundgaard,Frederik C. Krebs,Kion Norrman +28 more
TL;DR: This comprehensive investigation of OPV stability has significantly advanced the understanding of degradation behaviour in OPV devices, which is an important step towards large scale application of organic solar cells.
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Efficient planar organic semiconductors containing fused triphenylamine for solution processed small molecule organic solar cells
TL;DR: In this article, a push-pull organic semiconductor with a planar fused triphenylamine (DMM-TPA) donor and a methylene malononitrile (MMN) acceptor was synthesized.
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19·9%‐efficient ZnO/CdS/CuInGaSe2 solar cell with 81·2% fill factor
Ingrid Repins,Miguel A. Contreras,Brian Egaas,Clay DeHart,John Scharf,Craig L. Perkins,Bobby To,Rommel Noufi +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported a new record total area efficiency of 19·9% for thin-film solar cells using three-stage co-evaporation with a modified surface termination.
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New world record efficiency for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin‐film solar cells beyond 20%
Philip Jackson,Dimitrios Hariskos,Erwin Lotter,Stefan Paetel,Roland Wuerz,Richard Menner,Wiltraud Wischmann,Michael Powalla +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new certified world record efficiency of 20.1 and 20.3% for thin-film solar cells for the first time and analyzed the characteristics of solar cells on such a performance level and demonstrate a high degree of reproducibility.
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High‐Efficiency Solar Cell with Earth‐Abundant Liquid‐Processed Absorber
TL;DR: A non-vacuum, slurry-based coating method that combines advantages of both solution processing and particlebased deposition is shown, enabling fabrication of Cu2ZnSn(Se,S)4 devices with over 9.6% efficiency—a factor of five performance improvement relative to previous attempts to use highthroughput ink-based approaches and >40% higher than previous record devices prepared using vacuum-based methods.
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19.8% efficient “honeycomb” textured multicrystalline and 24.4% monocrystalline silicon solar cells
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