Abstract
Associate Editors Yana Vaynzof and Renaud Demadrille highlight recent research in organic photovoltaics in this themed collection (rsc.li/OrganicPhotovoltaics).
Highlights
Yana Vaynzof and Renaud Demadrille, Associate Editors of Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances the early 1990s – have continuously progressed, and today dye-sensitized solar cells and organic photovoltaics (OPVs) reach power conversion efficiencies of up to 14% and 18%, respectively, in leading laboratories
The recent development of semi-transparent, large area devices and the demonstration of their acceptable stability have opened the path to application in building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV)
The emergence of several classes of electron-accepting materials to replace fullerenes – the so-called non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) – resulted in remarkable improvements in device efficiency over a short period and created new perspectives for the development of this technology at an industrial level. This is exemplified by the discovery of molecules such as ITIC in 2015 and Y6 in 2017 that has led to a rapid increase of the performances of organic solar cells from 10% to more than 18% – significantly outperforming the solar cells using fullerene-based materials
Summary
Yana Vaynzof and Renaud Demadrille, Associate Editors of Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances the early 1990s – have continuously progressed, and today dye-sensitized solar cells and organic photovoltaics (OPVs) reach power conversion efficiencies of up to 14% and 18%, respectively, in leading laboratories. The recent development of semi-transparent, large area devices and the demonstration of their acceptable stability have opened the path to application in building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV).
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