Photovoltaic cells are semiconductor devices that can generate electrical energy based on energy of light that they absorb.They are also often called solar cells because their primary use is to generate electricity specifically from sunlight, but there are few applications where other light is used; for example, for power over fiber one usually uses laser light.
Photovoltaic cells are semiconductor devices that can generate electrical energy based on energy of light that they absorb.They are also often called solar cells because their primary use is to generate electricity specifically from sunlight, but there are few applications where other light is used; for example, for power over fiber one usually uses laser light.
In this study, we developed a multiscale molecular simulation framework including coarse-grained (CG) molecular simulation, reverse-mapping, and morphology evaluation schemes to investigate the nanoscale morphologies of bulk heterojunction (BHJ) blend films comprising poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and the me
The power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells has increased with the introduction of the donor–acceptor heterojunction that serves to dissociate strongly bound photogenerated excitons1. Further efficiency increases have been achieved in both polymer2,3 and small-molecular-mass4 organic photovoltaic cells …
It has long been argued that the performance of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells critically depends on the morphology of the active layer, a mixture of donor and acceptor materials in which the charge generation from sunlight occurs. In this work, optical homogenization principles are utilized to model the structure of the common active layer …
Fig. 2 (a) shows the photo J–V characteristics of the organic photovoltaic cells as a function of the SnPc:C 60 bulk heterojunction layer thickness. The J SC of the organic photovoltaic cells increases with increasing thickness of the SnPc:C 60 bulk heterojunction layer and its value increases from 3.3 mA/cm 2 for the cell with a 6-nm …
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE), a kind of nonlinear optical process that converts light into electricity in solids, has a potential advantage in a solar cell with …
Solution-processed thin-film organic, inorganic, and hybrid photovoltaic devices have achieved power conversion efficiencies as high as 5%. However, these devic Ethan J. D. Klem, Dean D. MacNeil, Paul W. Cyr, Larissa Levina, Edward H. Sargent; Efficient solution-processed infrared photovoltaic cells: Planarized all-inorganic bulk …
Emerging electro-optical applications can exploit properties that arise from particular lattice symmetries, such as the bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) in non …
The OSCs based on multicomponent photoactive layer deliver a high power conversion efficiency of 11.8% and exhibit excellent device stability for over 1000 h …
We fabricated three types of bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) photovoltaic cells with the electron donor and acceptor ratio varied across the film. One has a stacked layer structure of a donor-rich layer (2:1) the near cathode and an acceptor-rich layer (1:2) near the anode (DA-BHJ), another has a stacked structure with the inverse order (AD-BHJ), …
Photovoltaic action of conjugated polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells using novel PPE-PPV copolymers† H. Hoppe,* a D. A. M. Egbe,* b D. Mühlbacher c and N. S. Sariciftci a
The main route of charge photogeneration in efficient organic photovoltaic cells based on bulk hetero-junction donor–acceptor blends involves short-lived charge-transfer excitons at the donor ...
Uncovering the out-of-plane nanomorphology of organic ...
The optimized polymer solar cells based on CF 3-BDP-TPA and CF 3-BDP-Cz attained power conversion efficiencies of 9.89% and 13.07%, respectively. The higher PCE for the …
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Recombination is an important loss mechanism in organic solar cells. Here, both free charge and trapped charge carriers are taken into account in order to calculate the recombination rate. Trapped charge carriers are approximated by an exponential tail between the conduction band and valence band, and recombination is …
Influence of thermal and solvent annealing on the morphology and photovoltaic performance of solution processed, D–A–D type small molecule-based bulk heterojunction solar cells† C. H. Pavan Kumar, ab K. Ganesh, ab T. Suresh, a Abhishek Sharma, c K. Bhanuprakash, ab G. D. Sharma * d and Malapaka …
DOI: 10.1038/nature01949 Corpus ID: 4361523 Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using small-molecular-weight organic thin films @article{Peumans2003EfficientBH, title={Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using small-molecular-weight organic thin films}, author={Peter Peumans and Soichi Uchida and Stephen R. Forrest}, …
With fullerene as the acceptor, high open-circuit voltages are achieved using a donor–acceptor bulk heterojunction with a low concentration of donor in …
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) occurs in solids with broken inversion symmetry and refers to DC generation due to uniform illumination, without the need of …
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) is a mechanism of recent focus for novel solar cells that exceed the power conversion efficiency of p–n junction solar cells because of the quantum...
Highly efficient photovoltaic cells based on a bulk heterojunction configuration composed of C70 with various donor materials at 5 wt. % donor concentration wer Yan ...
Efficient and stable organic solar cells enabled by ...
In future solar cell technologies, the thermodynamic Shockley-Queisser limit for solar-to-current conversion in traditional p–n junctions could potentially be overcome with a bulk photovoltaic effect by creating an inversion broken symmetry in piezoelectric or ferroelectric materials. Here, we unveiled mechanical distortion-induced bulk …
In polymer photovoltaic cells, the exciton diffusion bottleneck has been removed through the introduction of bulk heterojunctions 4,5 () a bulk heterojunction, the donor–acceptor interface is ...
PTB7-Th-Based Organic Photovoltaic Cells with a High VOC of over 1.0 V via Fluorination and Side Chain Engineering of Benzotriazole-Containing Nonfullerene …
In future solar cell technologies, the thermodynamic Shockley-Queisser limit for solar-to-current conversion in traditional p–n junctions could potentially be overcome …
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In the field of polymer-based photovoltaic cells, P3HT and PCBM are, to date, the most-studied active materials around the world for the bulk-heterojunction structure. Various power conversion efficiencies …
Advanced Materials, one of the world''s most prestigious journals, is the home of choice for best-in-class materials science for more than 30 years. A novel stable bisazide molecule that can freeze the bulk heterojunction morphology at its optimized layout by specifically bonding to fullerenes is reported. ...
Bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells based on room temperature liquid crystalline tetrathiafulvalene derivatives Lei Wang National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing, PR China Soo-Yeon Park Dept. of Polymer/Nano Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea
The evolution of photovoltaic cells is intrinsically linked to advancements in the materials from which they are fabricated. This review paper provides an in-depth analysis of the latest developments in silicon-based, organic, and perovskite solar cells, which are at the forefront of photovoltaic research. We scrutinize the unique characteristics, …
The research for efficient organic materials organized in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) thin films for organic photovoltaics (OPVs) has shown a significant breakthrough in the past decade. Desired structural organization can be attained through various strategies. In this regard, the current review highlights tuning of alkyl chains …
A novel immobilized fullerene–single wall carbon nanotube (C60–SWCNT) complex was synthesized via a microwave induced functionalization approach. It has been used as a component of the photoactive layer in a bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cell. As compared to a control device with only C60, the addition of
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Recently, much effort has been devoted to improve the efficiency of organic photovoltaic solar cells based on blends of donors and acceptors molecules in bulk heterojunction architecture. One of ...
It is formed between donor and acceptor moieties in the bulk-heterojunction absorber and has become the central topic in discussions of OPV efficiency. 4-7 Based on Rau''s reciprocity theorem 8 relating the photovoltaic quantum efficiency and 4, …