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This Review covers the scientific origins and basic properties of polymer solar cell technology, material requirements and device operation mechanisms, while also providing …
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) have attracted significant research attention in recent years, primarily due to their advantages of outstanding photo-thermal stability and …
Polymer-based solar cells are approaching power conversion efficiencies that make them competitive with CO 2-producing technologies. The record efficiencies have been …
Herein, the latest progresses of polymer solar cells with efficiency over 17% are briefly reviewed from the aspects of active material design, interface material development, and device technology. At last, the opportunities and challenges …
A polymer solar cell is a type of flexible solar cell made with polymers, large molecules with repeating structural units, that produce electricity from sunlight by the photovoltaic effect. …
This Review covers the scientific origins and basic properties of polymer solar cell technology, material requirements and device operation …
Polymer solar cells have shown potential to harness solar energy in a cost-effective way. Significant efforts are underway to improve their efficiency to the level of...
The MEH-PPV was used in early polymer solar cells, which was designed with asymmetric and racemic 2-ethylhexyl side-chains explicitly to make the polymer more homogeneous in the solid state along with improved …
Recent progress in the development of polymer solar cells has improved power-conversion efficiencies from 3% to almost 9%. Based on semiconducting polymers, these solar cells are fabricated from ...
Amorphous Silicon Particles/Polyaniline Composites for Hybrid Photovoltaic Solar Cell: an Experimental Feasibility Study. ... Among the various non-fullerene PSCs, all …
After an introduction into the operational principles and device structure of polymer solar cells, this paper provides an overview of the last-years research activity. In …
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) consisting of polymer donors (P D s) and polymer acceptors (P A s) have drawn tremendous research interest in recent years. It is due …
Research on modern organic photovoltaic devices is focused on studying bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells containing two material phases: an electron donor material …
This D:A ratio-dependent PCE of all-polymer solar cells indicates that obtaining the correct D:A ratio is crucial to optimal PV performance in all-polymer solar cells. Ma and …
In a tandem PV cell, the bandgap of the first sub-cell is typically higher than the bandgap of the second sub-cell, which allows the first sub-cell to absorb the high-energy …
This work demonstrates that introducing polyfullerenes as guest components is an effective approach to achieving highly efficient ternary all-polymer solar cells with good …
The simplest form of a polymer solar cell is shown in Fig. 19.1.The illustration is simplified and focus is on the active layer, which is classically a mixture of the conjugated polymer poly-3 …
Controlling the phase morphology of photoactive layers toward satisfactory charge transport with reduced energetic disorder is the key to obtaining targeted efficiencies in organic solar cells …
High energy dependence on fossil fuels and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions are factors that highlight the need for alternative energy sources. Photovoltaic …
Polymer Photovoltaics are a type of flexible solar cell with a stable, thin-film semiconductor deposited on different types of plastic substrate. Polymer solar cells are lightweight compared …
Presently, the new generation of solar cells—the third-generation photovoltaics based on nanocrystals, polymers, dyes, perovskites, and organic materials—is a highly …