Ultimate efficiency of polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

By L. Jan Anton Koster, V. Mihailetchi, Paul W. M. Blom. 2006

531 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8c0584df7fcf391791510588a13afd500b848208

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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Yang Yang
2. Gang Li
3. Z. Hong
4. Jingbi You
5. Thomas Kietzke
6. L. Dou
7. Martijn Lenes
8. Paul W. M. Blom

In Polymers and Plastics

1. Yang Yang
2. Gang Li
3. Z. Hong
4. Thomas Kietzke
5. L. Dou
6. Martijn Lenes
7. Jingbi You
8. Paul W. M. Blom

Citations in the corpus

• Small Bandgap Polymers for Organic Solar Cells (Polymer Material Development in the Last 5 Years) (2008, methodology): “9–2 eV.(14) However, in practice the possibility of energy level alignment at the acceptor side is very limited.”
• Recent Advances in Organic Solar Cells (2007, background): “Recently it was pointed out that 10% efficiency may be in reach with polymer:fullerene blends if the relative energy levels could be better aligned [108, 130].”
• Recent trends in polymer tandem solar cells research (2013, background): “Several groups have predicted that the power conversion efficiency (PCE) limitation of single junction organic solar cells is ∼10–12%, through optimization of materials with appropriate band gap, energy levels, and carrier mobility [19,20].”