OPV technology

With the comprehensive, up-to-date reviews on the recent advancements in OPV technology from the leading experts around the world, we hope that this book will provide a useful source of information and a practical guide for scientists, engineers and graduate students that are interested in this field. 

The performance of NC-polymer hybrid solar cells increased constantly as well during the past years, but PCE values are still by a factor of 2 lower than that for pure OPV. Here, hybrid solar cell technologies benefit from the development of low-bandgap polymers from OPV, leading to an increased utilization of the incident solar radiation [81, 19]. However, the development of suitable low-bandgap polymers has been optimized for their utilization with fullerene-based acceptors such as PCPM and its derivatives, and the tailored design of polymers for specific... 

Examples here reviewed show the opportunity offered by a tight collaboration between supramolecular chemistry and physics to solve problems in emerging technologies such as those concerning OLED, OFET, OPV and sensors. In addition to these items, we suggest additional topics that deserve to be tackled in the near future, namely electrically pumped organic lasers and photonic crystals. 

OPVs The development of organic solar cells tvas initiated by the success of OLED technology when commercial products started to become available on the market. With the energy crisis, OPVs have become a research goal to provide cheap and eco-friendly energy to replace silicon solar cells, which are expensive due to the production cost. 

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