Polymer Photovoltaics

Materials, Physics, and Device Engineering

Fei Huang, Hin-Lap Yip, Yong Cao

• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781782622307
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

Polymer solar cells have gained much attention as they offer a potentially economic and viable way of commercially manufacturing lightweight, flexible and low-cost photovoltaics. With contributions from leading scientists, Polymer Photovoltaics provides an international perspective on the latest research for this rapidly expanding field. The book starts with an Introduction to polymer solar cells and covers several important topics that govern their photovoltaic properties including the chemistry and the design of new light harvesting and interfacial materials and their structure-property relationship; the physics for photocurrent generation in the polymer solar cells; new characterization tools to study morphology effect on the property of donor/acceptor bulk heterojunctions; new device concepts such as tandem cells and semi-transparent cells and advanced roll-to-roll processes for large-scale manufacturing of polymer solar cells. Written by active researchers, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advancements in polymer solar cell technology for both researchers and students that are interested in this field.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Polymer Photovoltaics
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter 1 - New Chemistry for Organic Photovoltaic Materials
• Chapter 2 - New Polymer Donors for Polymer Solar Cells
• Chapter 3 - Fullerene Derivatives as Electron Acceptors in Polymer Solar Cells
• Chapter 4 - Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells
• Chapter 5 - Design and Synthesis of Small Molecule Donors for High Efficiency Solution Processed Organic Solar Cells
• Chapter 6 - Interface Engineering of Polymer Solar Cells
• Chapter 7 - Solution Processed Metal Oxides and Hybrid Metal Oxides as Efficient Carrier Transport Layers of Organic Optoelectronic Devices
• Chapter 8 - New Science and New Technology in Semiconducting Polymers
• Chapter 9 - Morphology of Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells
• Chapter 10 - Charge Generation, Recombination and Transport in Organic Solar Cells
• Chapter 11 - Multi-Junction Polymer Solar Cells
• Chapter 12 - Semi-Transparent Polymer Solar Cells for Power Generating Window Applications
• Chapter 13 - Solution Processed Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs)
• Subject Index