COMPARISON ON THE USE OF SILICON AND FLEXIBLE ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS AS REPLACEMENTS FOR FOSSIL FUEL ENERGY SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY IN THE UK AND KURDISTAN, IRAQReceived 10th June, 2014Received in revised form20th July, 2014Accepted 23rd August, 2014Published online 30th September, 2014Azad Azabany...
The dominance of silicon-based solar cells may be ending, as organic photovoltaics have recently achieved a competitive level of efficiency. Scientists have long sought to overcome this hurdle. For consumers, this will usher in cheaper, lighter, more flexible, and vastly more versatile solar panels...
Organic photovoltaics (OPV) represent a clean, renewable, transparent, flexible and low-cost technology alternative to the silicon-based solar cells [20–22]. For years, the main handicap for the OPV to reach the commercial level has been its low efficiency [20–22]. Recently, however, OPV ...
Due to the mechanical flexibility, light weight, aesthetics, absorption tunability and environmental friendliness, organic solar cells (OSCs) have superior application potential over their inorganic counterparts including
SOLAR cellsMONOMOLECULAR filmsALUMINUM formingAMORPHOUS siliconHYDROGEN evolution reactionsEffective charge carrier‐selective contacts are a crucial component of high‐performance crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells. Organic materials deposited via self‐assembly on the c‐Si surface ar...
Non-fullerene acceptors based organic solar cells represent the frontier of the field, owing to both the materials and morphology manipulation innovations. Non-radiative recombination loss suppression and performance boosting are in the center of organic solar cell research. Here, we developed a non-mo...
Solar cell technology started as sharp p–n junction structure in highly crystalline semiconductors. This structure does not work in low mobility and poor crystalline solar cell systems like amorphous silicon (a-Si), where p-i-n structure dominates. Polymeric OSC with revolutionary BHJ structure rep...
11%-Efficiency Hybrid Organic/Silicon-Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cell with an Intermediate 1,1-bis[(di-4-tolylamino)phenyl]cyclohexane Layer Hybrid organic-inorganic heterojunction solar cells based on silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are promising candidates for next-generation photovoltaics owing to ... ...
Due to simpler and less expensive fabrication processes at room temperature, the HSCs have many superiorities over conventional silicon solar cells, positioning the HSCs be a striking research topic. Recently, a significant amount of research has been done to improve the yield and efficiency of ...
The stability of organic solar cells is a key issue to promote practical applications. Herein, we demonstrate that the device performance of organic solar cells is enhanced by an Ir/IrOx electron-transporting layer, benefiting from its suitable work func