Organic Solar Cells—The Path to Commercial Success

By Moritz Riede, D. Spoltore, Karl Leo. Advanced Energy Materials, 2020

386 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Organic solar cells have the potential to become the cheapest form of electricity, beating even silicon photovoltaics. This article summarizes the state of the art in the field, highlighting research challenges, mainly the need for an efficiency increase as well as an improvement in long‐term stability. It discusses possible current and future applications, such as building integrated photovoltaics or portable electronics. Finally, the environmental footprint of this renewable energy technology is evaluated, highlighting the potential to be the energy generation technology with the lowest carbon footprint of all.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Riku Jäntti
2. Hüseyin Yigitler
3. Kalle Ruttik
4. J. Wiklund
5. Toni Palko
6. Alp Karakoç
7. Jouni Paltakari

In Polymers and Plastics

1. Riku Jäntti
2. Hüseyin Yigitler
3. Kalle Ruttik
4. J. Wiklund
5. Toni Palko
6. Alp Karakoç
7. Jouni Paltakari

Citations in the corpus

• A Review on Printed Electronics: Fabrication Methods, Inks, Substrates, Applications and Environmental Impacts (2021, background): “Printable solar cells, on the other hand, are promising candidates to harvest energy for niche applications such as wearable textile electronics to charge low-power devices and building-integrated systems to harvest energy from solar cells placed on roofs, windows or facades of buildings [102].”