Polymer–fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

C Deibel, V Dyakonov - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Organic solar cells have the potential to be low-cost and efficient solar energy converters,
with a promising energy balance. They are made of carbon-based semiconductors, which …

Computational modeling and simulation of nanoparticle self-assembly in polymeric systems: Structures, properties and external field effects

LT Yan, XM **e - Progress in Polymer Science, 2013 - Elsevier
Self-assembly of nanoscale particles, such as nanospheres, nanorods, and nanotubes, in
polymer systems is one of the most prominent and promising candidates for the …

Efficiency improvement of CsSnI3 based heterojunction solar cells with P3HT HTL: A numerical simulation approach

MF Rahman, MAI Islam, M Chowdhury… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, lead free CsSnI 3 based solar cells are gaining popularity among researchers due
to their outstanding semiconducting characteristics. To improve the efficiency of the recently …

Role of the charge transfer state in organic donor–acceptor solar cells

C Deibel, T Strobel, V Dyakonov - Advanced materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Charge transfer complexes are interfacial charge pairs residing at the donor–acceptor
heterointerface in organic solar cell. Experimental evidence shows that it is crucial for the …

S-shaped current-voltage characteristics of organic solar devices

A Wagenpfahl, D Rauh, M Binder, C Deibel… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Measuring the current-voltage characteristic of organic bulk heterojunction solar devices
sometimes reveals an S-shaped deformation. We qualitatively produce this behavior by a …

Optimization of thickness and morphology of active layer for high performance of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

YM Nam, J Huh, WH Jo - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2010 - Elsevier
A two-dimensional model accounting for the effect of both the morphology of active layer and
the layer configuration of multilayer-structured device on the device performance, is …

Performance estimation of photovoltaic–thermoelectric hybrid systems

J Zhang, Y Xuan, L Yang - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
A theoretical model for evaluating the efficiency of concentrating PV–TE (photovoltaic–
thermoelectric) hybrid system is developed in this paper. Hybrid systems with different …

Organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells

C Deibel, V Dyakonov… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Solar cells based on solution-processable organic semiconductors have shown a
considerable performance increase in recent years, and a lot of progress has been made in …

A graph-based formulation for computational characterization of bulk heterojunction morphology

O Wodo, S Tirthapura, S Chaudhary… - Organic …, 2012 - Elsevier
To improve the efficiency of organic solar cells, it is essential to understand the role of
morphology and to tailor fabrication process to get desired morphologies. In this context, a …

Absorption and quasiguided mode analysis of organic solar cells with photonic crystal photoactive layers

JR Tumbleston, DH Ko, ET Samulski, R Lopez - Optics Express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We analyze optical absorption enhancements and quasiguided mode properties of organic
solar cells with highly ordered nanostructured photoactive layers comprised of the bulk …