Controlling the Morphology and Performance of Bulk Heterojunctions in Solar Cells. Lessons Learned from the Benchmark Poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-Phenyl-C61 …

MT Dang, L Hirsch, G Wantz, JD Wuest - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic cells are an established and increasingly important technology for the
production of renewable energy. 1 Despite the expanding use of inorganic semiconductors …

Polymer solar cells: recent development and possible routes for improvement in the performance

W Cai, X Gong, Y Cao - Solar energy materials and solar cells, 2010 - Elsevier
The development of polymer solar cells is rapidly accelerating as the need of new clean
energy sources. Polymer solar cells are attractive because they can be manufactured on …

Improved light harvesting and improved efficiency by insertion of an optical spacer (ZnO) in solution-processed small-molecule solar cells

AKK Kyaw, DH Wang, D Wynands, J Zhang… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that the power conversion efficiency can be significantly improved in
solution-processed small-molecule solar cells by tuning the thickness of the active layer and …

Polymeric solar cells based on P3HT: PCBM: Role of the casting solvent

MT Dang, G Wantz, H Bejbouji, M Urien… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2011 - Elsevier
Polymeric photovoltaic (PV) solar cells have been fabricated using six solvents: chloroform
(CHCl3), toluene (T), chlorobenzene (CB), orthodichlorobenzene (ODCB), 1, 2, 3, 4 …

[PDF][PDF] Enhanced performance and stability of a polymer solar cell by incorporation of vertically aligned, cross-linked fullerene nanorods

CY Chang, CE Wu, SY Chen, C Cui… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - ir.lib.nycu.edu.tw
Research on polymer solar cells (PSC) using organic p-type (donor) and n-type (acceptor)
semiconductors has attracted tremendous scientific and industrial interest in recent years.[1 …

Copper-phthalocyanine based metal–organic interfaces: The effect of fluorination, the substrate, and its symmetry

DG De Oteyza, A El-Sayed, JM Garcia-Lastra… - The Journal of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Metal–organic interfaces based on copper-phthalocyanine monolayers are studied in
dependence of the metal substrate (Au versus Cu), of its symmetry [hexagonal (111) …

Recent progress in modeling, simulation, and optimization of polymer solar cells

G Li, L Liu, F Wei, S Xia, X Qian - IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The power conversion efficiency of polymer solar cells today has passed 10%, the
commonly acceptable value for commercial usage. However, in general labs, the power …

Understanding the role of thickness and morphology of the constituent layers on the performance of inverted organic solar cells

SK Gupta, A Sharma, S Banerjee, R Gahlot… - Solar energy materials …, 2013 - Elsevier
Inverted bulk heterojunction organic solar cells have generated significant interest in organic
photovoltaic research due to much improved life times. Efficiency maximization for a given …

Enhancing the short-circuit current and efficiency of organic solar cells using MoO3 and CuPc as buffer layers

F Cheng, G Fang, X Fan, N Liu, N Sun, P Qin… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2011 - Elsevier
Efficient bulk-heterojunction (BHJ)(regioregular poly (3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT):(6, 6)-phenyl
C61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM)) solar cells were fabricated with molybdenum trioxide …

Efficiency improvement in organic solar cells by inserting a discotic liquid crystal

Q Zheng, G Fang, W Bai, N Sun, P Qin, X Fan… - Solar energy materials …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, we reported a simple method to increase the power conversion efficiencies
(PCEs) of solar cells based on poly (3-hexylthiophene) and [6, 6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid …