Potential Applications of Organic Solar Cells

Vanadyl Sulfate Based Hole‐Transporting Layer Enables Efficient Organic Solar Cells

“…Organic solar cell (OSC) represents a novel photovoltaic technology that utilizes organic semiconductor materials to convert sunlight into electrical energy. [ 1 ] OSCs can display attracting advantages such as flexibility, lightweight, and low‐cost manufacture, [ 2‐9 ] endowing them with great potential application in wearable devices, foldable electronics, internet of things and smart buildings, etc . [ 10‐13 ] Owing to the significant efforts devoted by the OSCs community on the successive innovation of photoactive layer materials and efficient blended layer morphology control strategies, [ 14‐37 ] the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of single junction OSCs have achieved remarkable enhancement surpassing 19%, and even close to 20% recently.…”

Structural divergence of molecular hole selective materials for viable p-i-n perovskite photovoltaics: a comprehensive review

“…1,2 Solar cells operate via the photovoltaic concept, which involves direct conversion of solar energy into electricity by utilizing light-absorbing materials such as (i) crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafer based rst generation solar cells, 3,4 (ii) amorphous silicon (a-Si), copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), cadmium telluride (CdTe), and gallium arsenic (GaAs) thin lm based second generation solar cells, [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and (iii) ruthenium/osmium metal complexes, organic donor-acceptor materials, quantum dots, and metal halide perovskite based emerging third generation solar cells that are classied as organic solar cells (OSCs), dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) and perovskite solar cells (PSCs). [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the C-Si solar cells reached ∼20% in commercial modules/ ∼26% in laboratory cells and is currently dominating the photovoltaic (PV) market. 22 Although the PCE of different types of second and third-generation solar cells has been quite promising in recent decades, most of these emerging solar cells are not very commercially competitive with C-Si solar cells to meet large power-driven markets.…”

Simple and Low‐Cost Vanadyl Oxalate as Hole Transporting Layer Enables Efficient Organic Solar Cells

“…Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in flexible electronics for Internet of Things, [ 1,2 ] indoor photovoltaics, [ 3–5 ] greenhouse, [ 6 ] semitransparent windows for automobiles and building integration, [ 7–10 ] and biosensors. [ 11–13 ] OSCs have shown high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of over 19% due to the vigorous development of non‐fullerene electron acceptors, [ 14–16 ] especially those based on the Y‐series electron acceptors with the A‐DA'D‐A framework.…”

“…Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in flexible electronics for Internet of Things, [1,2] indoor photovoltaics, [3][4][5] greenhouse, [6] to enhance the efficiencies and long-term stability of OSCs simultaneously.…”