Magnetic field enhancement of organic photovoltaic cells performance

Surface Plasmon Enhancement of Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Photovoltaic Cells Energy Performance Enhancement with Down- Converting Photoluminescence Phosphors

Phosphors, synthesized by the urea homo-precipitation method, were examined as UV-spectral down conversion materials for improving the light absorption and electrical characteristics of commercial single-junction silicon solar cells. The PV cells were coated with Erbium and Terbium doped Gadolinium Oxysulfide phosphors encapsulated in EVA binder using blade screen printing technique, and the op...

High performance organic photovoltaic cells with blade-coated active layers

High performance bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells with blade-coated active layers of POD2T-DTBT blended with [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) are demonstrated in this work. The blade-coated cells exhibit power conversion efficiencies of up to 6.74%, which is comparable to those of conventional spincoated cells but obtained with just a fraction of the mater...

Towards High Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells: A Review of Recent Development in Organic Photovoltaics

Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) have been a hot topic for research during the last decade due to their promising application in relieving energy pressure and environmental problems caused by the increasing combustion of fossil fuels. Much effort has been made toward understanding the photovoltaic mechanism, including evolving chemical structural motifs and designing device structures, leading...

Piezoelectric Enhancement of Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Photovoltaic Device

Solar cells are produced using solution processing that combine ZnO nanorods with the conjugated polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). ZnO nanorods have an average length and diameter of 2.7 μm and 81 nm, and are well coated with P3HT. The solar cells have a power conversion efficiency of 1.24 %, which increases to 1.78 % when 10 kHz acoustic vibrations are applied to the device at 75 dB using...