scholarly journals Fullerene-free polymer solar cells processed from non-halogenated solvents in air with PCE of 4.8%

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1164-1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Dayneko ◽  
Arthur D. Hendsbee ◽  
Gregory C. Welch

Progress towards practical organic solar cells amenable to large scale production is reported.

ChemSusChem ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (19) ◽  
pp. 3228-3233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Pirotte ◽  
Jurgen Kesters ◽  
Pieter Verstappen ◽  
Sanne Govaerts ◽  
Jean Manca ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1318-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Mainville ◽  
Vicky Tremblay ◽  
Miriam Z. Fenniri ◽  
Audrey Laventure ◽  
Mahmoud E. Farahat ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 1116 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Tarek I.A. Mashreki ◽  
Mohammad Afzaal

Nanocomposites containing inorganic semiconductor nanomaterials are of tremendous interest for low-cost 3rd generation solar cells. A variety of possible materials and structures could be potentially used to reduce processing costs which is highly attractive for large scale production of solar cells. Controlling the morphology and surface chemistry of nanomaterials remains a key challenge that has major knock-on effects in devices. Herein, an attempt is made to highlight some of the challenges and the possible solutions for depositing high quality thin film composites for solar cell devices.


Solar Cells ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 245-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.D. Partain ◽  
L.M. Fraas ◽  
P.S. McLeod ◽  
J.A. Cape

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 049-049

Aim & Scope: Metal halide perovskitehave been regarded as promising classes of materials for photovoltaics and optoelectronic devices, owing to the unique characteristics, such as long charge carrier diffusion lengths, precise tunable bandgaps, high light absorption coefficients, and high defect tolerance. Research on perovskite in the fields including photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, lasers, X-ray imaging, and photodetectors has been gaining increasingly interest over the past years. Up to now, the efficiency of perovskite solar cells has grown from 3.8% in single-junction solar cells in 2009 to more than 25%, catching up the efficiency level of commercial silicon cells. Up to now, the key issues of perovskite photovoltaics and optoelectronic devices have become the stability, performance and large-scale production. This requires optimization of the film morphology, interface, device structure and the fabrication process. A lot work has been done on this issue and has made remarkable progress. We kindly invite you to submit a manuscript(s) for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Hugo Gaspar ◽  
Gabriel Bernardo ◽  
Adélio Mendes

Over the last four years, tremendous progress has occurred in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) and the champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) under AM1.5G conditions, as certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is currently 18.2%. However, these champion state-of-the-art devices were fabricated at lab-scale using highly toxic halogenated solvents which are harmful to human health and to the environment. The transition of OPVs from the lab to large-scale production and commercialization requires the transition from halogenated-solvent-processing to green-solvent-processing without compromising the device’s performance. This review focuses on the most recent research efforts, performed since the year 2018 onwards, in the development of green-solvent-processable OPVs and discusses the three main strategies that are being pursued to achieve the proposed goal, namely, (i) molecular engineering of novel donors and acceptors, (ii) solvent selection, and (iii) nanoparticle ink technology.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baobing Fan ◽  
Wenkai Zhong ◽  
Lei Ying ◽  
Difei Zhang ◽  
Meijing Li ◽  
...  

Abstract Naphthalenediimide-based n-type polymeric semiconductors are extensively used for constructing high-performance all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). For such all-polymer systems, charge recombination can be reduced by using thinner active layers, yet suffering insufficient near-infrared light harvesting from the polymeric acceptor. Conversely, increasing the layer thickness overcomes the light harvesting issue, but at the cost of severe charge recombination effects. Here we demonstrate that to manage light propagation within all-PSCs, a thick bulk-heterojunction film of approximately 350 nm is needed to effectively enhance photo-harvesting in the near-infrared region. To overcome the severe charge recombination in such a thick film, a non-halogenic additive is used to induce a well-ordered micro-structure that inherently suppresses recombination loss. The combined strategies of light management and delicate morphology optimization lead to a promising efficiency over 10% for thick-film all-PSCs with active area of 1 cm2, showing great promise for future large-scale production and application of all-PSCs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (37) ◽  
pp. 19123-19128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Conings ◽  
Aslihan Babayigit ◽  
Tim Vangerven ◽  
Jan D'Haen ◽  
Jean Manca ◽  
...  

In this paper, the impact of the water content (up to 10 vol%) in DMF-based precursors on organometal halide perovskites is investigated. The photovoltaic performance is found not to be affected, thus relaxing the conditions for large-scale production of this upcoming photovoltaic technology.


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