Recent Advances in Polymer Solar Cells: Realization of High Device Performance by Incorporating Water/Alcohol‐Soluble Conjugated Polymers as Electrode Buffer Layer. (16th December 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: He, Zhicai; Wu, Hongbin; Cao, Yong
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials. Volume 26:Number 7(2014)
• Page Start: 1006
• Page End: 1024
• Publication Date: 2013-12-16
• Subjects: Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201303391
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0935-9648

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This Progress Report highlights recent advances in polymer solar cells with special attention focused on the recent rapid‐growing progress in methods that use a thin layer of alcohol/water‐soluble conjugated polymers as key component to obtain optimized device performance, but also discusses novel materials and device architectures made by major prestigious institutions in this field.</p> <p>We anticipate that due to drastic improvements in efficiency and easy utilization, this method opens up new opportunities for PSCs from various material systems to improve towards 10% efficiency, and many novel device structures will emerge as suitable architectures for developing the ideal roll‐to‐roll type processing of polymer‐based solar cells.</p> </abstract>