Structural Factors That Affect the Performance of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Koen Vandewal; Scott Himmelberger; Alberto Salleo

doi:10.1021/ma400924b

Structural Factors That Affect the Performance of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Koen Vandewal, Scott Himmelberger, Alberto Salleo

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Abstract

The performance of polymer:fullerene solar cells is strongly affected by the active layer morphology and polymer microstructure. In this Perspective, we review ongoing research on how structural factors influence the photogeneration and collection of charge carriers as well as charge carrier recombination and the related open-circuit voltage. We aim to highlight unexplored research opportunities and provide some guidelines for the synthesis of new conjugated polymers for high-efficiency solar cells. © 2013 American Chemical Society.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	6379-6387
Number of pages	9
Journal	Macromolecules
Volume	46
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ma400924b
State	Published - Jul 29 2013
Externally published	Yes

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUS-C1-015-21
Acknowledgements: We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Science Foundation, the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (Award No. KUS-C1-015-21), made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development funding, under Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. S.H. thanks the National Science Foundation for support in the form of a Graduate Research Fellowship.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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