Enabling silicon for solar-fuel production

K Sun, S Shen, Y Liang, PE Burrows, SS Mao… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
After over 150 years of exploiting fossil fuels, nowadays humans are encountering two great
global problems: the increasingly serious environmental pollution and the expected …

Triple junction polymer solar cells

O Adebanjo, PP Maharjan, P Adhikary… - Energy & …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Similar to single and double junction polymer solar cells, triple junction devices can also be
fabricated from all-solution processing. Although single and double junction polymer solar …

Conjugated polymers based on benzodithiophene and fluorinated quinoxaline for bulk heterojunction solar cells: thiophene versus thieno [3, 2-b] thiophene as π …

D Gedefaw, M Tessarolo, W Zhuang, R Kroon… - Polymer …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Two conjugated donor–acceptor copolymers based on a benzodithiophene donor unit and a
fluorinated quinoxaline acceptor unit, spaced with either thiophene or thieno [3, 2-b] …

Polymer solar cells processed using anisole as a relatively nontoxic solvent

S Venkatesan, Q Chen, EC Ngo, N Adhikari… - Energy …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, a relatively nontoxic single solvent, anisole, was successfully used to process
polymer solar cells. Blends cast with anisole showed higher polymer aggregation due to …

A futuristic strategy to influence the solar cell performance using fixed and mobile dopants incorporated sulfonated polyaniline based buffer layer

G Sai-Anand, AI Gopalan, KP Lee… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, we hypothesized and demonstrated a new strategy to tune/modulate the
electrochemical, microstructural and opto-electronic properties based on the manipulation of …

Kelvin probe force microscopic imaging of the energy barrier and energetically favorable offset of interfaces in double-junction organic solar cells

MK Siddiki, S Venkatesan, D Galipeau… - ACS applied materials …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A double-junction polymer solar cell (PSC) has attracted extensive attention as a promising
approach to increasing efficiency. Tunneling/recombination interlayers between subcells …

Computational modelling of donor–acceptor conjugated polymers through engineered backbone manipulations based on a thiophene–quinoxaline alternating …

W Zhuang, A Lundin, MR Andersson - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid progress of bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics has been boosted by (i)
design and synthesis of novel conjugated donor materials,(ii) control and optimization of …

Double junction polymer solar cells

O Adebanjo, B Vaagensmith, Q Qiao - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The growing need for low-cost alternative energy motivates research in polymer solar cells.
To reduce the cost per watt of energy, polymer solar cells with high power conversion …

Interfacial layers in organic solar cells

J Lian, Y Yuan, E Peng, J Huang - Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells, 2014 - Springer
Abstract interfacial layers play a critical role in organic solar cells (OSCs) to determine their
efficiency and lifetime. The introduction of proper interfacial materials at the both interfaces …

Optimization of interconnecting layers for double-and triple-junction polymer solar cells

AF Mitul, L Mohammad, B Vaagensmith… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In solution-processed tandem polymer solar cells, one of the most challenging parts is the
optimization of interconnecting layers (ICLs) between subcells. In this study, ICLs were …