Solar Cells, 2nd Edition

Chapter ID-2

Organic Solar Cells

Clare Dyer-Smith and Jenny Nelson

Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Chapter Outline

1. Introduction

1.1. Moving Toward the Market

2. Organic Electronic Materials

2.1. Excitons in Organic Semiconductors

3. Principles of Device Operation

3.1. Device Architectures

3.2. Bilayer Architecture

3.3. Bulk Heterojunction Architecture

4. Optimising Solar Cell Performance

4.1. Optimising Light Harvesting

4.2. Optical Trapping

4.3. Optimising Voltage Generation

4.4. Optimising Electrodes for Voltage Generation

4.5. Organic Tandem Solar Cells

4.6. Optimising Microstructure of Bulk Heterojunctions

4.7. Blend Composition

4.8. Annealing

4.9. Blend Additives

4.10. Alternative Approaches ...