Efficiency of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells
By M. Scharber, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci. Progress in polymer science, 2013
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During the last years the performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells has been improved significantly. For a large-scale application of this technology further improvements are required. This article reviews the basic working principles and the state of the art device design of bulk heterojunction solar cells. The importance of high power conversion efficiencies for the commercial exploitation is outlined and different efficiency models for bulk heterojunction solar cells are discussed. Assuming state of the art materials and device architectures several models predict power conversion efficiencies in the range of 10–15%. A more general approach assuming device operation close to the Shockley–Queisser-limit leads to even higher efficiencies. Bulk heterojunction devices exhibiting only radiative recombination of charge carriers could be as efficient as ideal inorganic photovoltaic devices.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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- Solution-processable polymeric solar cells: A review on materials, strategies and cell architectures to overcome 10% (2015, background): “However, more accurate models explicitly developed for polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells and that hence take into account their detailed work mechanisms predict maximum efficiencies of around 15% [2] and 21% [3] for single and tandem cells respectively.”
- Electron and Hole Transport Layers: Their Use in Inverted Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells (2014, methodology): “To date, organic-based light-emitting diodes (OLED) have become commercially available with good performance, and polymer-based photovoltaics has reached high efficiency: over 9% in lab-scale devices [2,3].”