scholarly journals Application of Artificial Intelligence for Optimization of Organic Solar Cells Production Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Grazia Lo Sciuto

The study of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been rapidly developed in recent years. Organic solar cell technology is sought after mainly due to the ease of manufacture and their exclusive properties such as mechanical flexibility, light-weight, and transparency. These properties of OSCs are well-suited for unconventional applications with power conversion efficiencies more high than 10%. The flexibility of the used substrates and the thinness of the devices make OSCs ideal for roll-to-roll production. However the organic solar cells still have very low conversion efficiencies due to degradation and stability of the technology. In order to extract their full potential, OSCs have to be optimized. On the other hand the production chain of the organic solar cells (OSC) can take advantage of the use of artificial intelligence (AI). In fact the integration into the production workflow makes solar cells more competitive and efficient. This paper presents some applications of the AI for optimization of OSCs production processes Full Text: PDF ReferencesLo Sciuto, G., Capizzi, G., Coco, S., Shikler, R., "Geometric shape optimization of organic solar cells for efficiency enhancement by neural networks." (2017) Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 789-796. CrossRef Barnea, S.N., Lo Sciuto, G., Hai, N., Shikler, R., Capizzi, G., Wozniak, M., Polap, D., "Photo-electro characterization and modeling of organic light-emitting diodes by using a radial basis neural network." (2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10246 LNAI, pp. 378-389. CrossRef Ye, L.; Hu, H.; Ghasemi, M.; Wang, T.; Collins, B.A.; Kim, J.H.; Jiang, K.; Carpenter, J.H.; Li, H.; Li, Z.; et al. "Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells." Nat. Mater. 2018, 17, 253-260. CrossRef Haralick, R.M., Shanmugam, K., Dinstein, I.: Textural features for image classification. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. SMC-3(6), 610-621 (1973) CrossRef Capizzi, G., Sciuto, G.L., Napoli, C., Tramontana, E., Wozniak, M.: Automatic classification of fruit defects based on co-occurrence matrix and neural networks. In: 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), pp. 861-867, September 2015. CrossRef

Author(s):  
Shreyam Chatterjee ◽  
Seihou JINNAI ◽  
Yutaka Ie

Progressive advancement of remarkably high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) largely depends on the development of norfullerene acceptors (NFAs), revealing stupendous ability of OSCs to shift...


2021 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 30201
Author(s):  
Xi Guan ◽  
Yufei Wang ◽  
Shang Feng ◽  
Jidong Zhang ◽  
Qingqing Yang ◽  
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Organic solar cells (OSCs) have been fabricated using cathode buffer layers based on bathocuproine (BCP) and 4,4'-N,N'-dicarbazole-biphenyl (CBP). It is found that despite nearly same power conversion efficiencies, the bilayer of BCP/CBP shows increased thermal stability of device than the monolayer of BCP, mostly because upper CBP thin film stabilizes under BCP thin film. The mixed layer of BCP:CBP gives slightly decreased efficiency than BCP and BCP/CBP, mostly because the electron mobility of the OSC using BCP:CBP is decreased than those using BCP and BCP/CBP. However, the BCP:CBP increases thermal stability of device than BCP and BCP/CBP, ascribed to that the BCP and CBP effectively inhibit reciprocal tendencies of crystallizations in the mixed layer. Moreover, the BCP:CBP improves the light stability of device than the BCP and BCP/CBP, because the energy transfer from BCP to CBP in in the mixed layer effectively decelerates the photodegradation of BCP. We provide a facial method to improve the stabilities of cathode buffer layers against heat and light, beneficial to the commercial development of OSCs.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congcong Zhao ◽  
Jiuxing Wang ◽  
Xuanyi Zhao ◽  
Zhonglin Du ◽  
Renqiang Yang ◽  
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The past decade has seen a tremendous development of organic solar cells (OSCs). To date, the high-performance OSCs have boosted the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 17%, showing bright prospects...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifen Liu ◽  
Zixuan Zhu ◽  
Huafeng Li ◽  
Weili Fan ◽  
Kaihua Ning ◽  
...  

Non-fullerene acceptors have received a great deal of attention over the past several years, and numerous modifications on the molecular structures significantly boosted the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). To be...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaofan Yang ◽  
Shijie Liang ◽  
Baiqiao Liu ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Fan Yang ◽  
...  

Single-component organic solar cells (SCOSCs) have been recognized as the promising photovoltaic technology due to the excellent stability, but their power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) are far lagging their bulk-heterojunction counterparts....


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