Abstract
Third-generation solar cells have excellent potential for delivering large scale, low-cost solar electricity. We review and compare the current understanding of the operation principles, performance improvements and future prospects for polymer:fullerene, hybrid polymer and perovskite solar cells.
Highlights
Polymer Science and Technology Group, School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
The tremendous achievements for the published power conversion efficiencies (PCEs)'s of perovskite solar cells (SCs) do not appear to have bene ted from industrial collaborations – which are in progress
All three 3rd-generation technologies continue to improve in terms of their PCEs (Tables 2, 4 and 5) and many researchers are mindful of future large scale deployment processes (e.g., R2R)
Summary
Polymer Science and Technology Group, School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Dr Junfeng Yan is currently a postdoctoral research associate in School of Materials, University of Manchester He obtained his PhD in July 2013 in Lanzhou. Saunders group at University of Manchester as a postdoctoral researcher His current research interest is directed assembly of nanocrystals for semiconducting polymer composites to establish solar cells. Brian Vincent at the University of Bristol between 1994 and 1997 He is a Professor of Polymer and Colloid Chemistry at the School of Materials, University of Manchester. Because each of the 3rd-generation SCs considered are solution processable with PCE values that range from respectable to very high, each of the SC families are considered to have excellent potential for large-scale deployment via roll-to-roll (R2R) production. We propose that polymer:fullerene and perovskite SCs have reached points in their technological evolutions where large scale deployment is possible
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