Baselines for Lifetime of Organic Solar Cells. Issue 22 (22nd August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gevorgyan, Suren A.; Espinosa, Nieves; Ciammaruchi, Laura; Roth, Bérenger; Livi, Francesco; Tsopanidis, Stylianos; Züfle, Simon; Queirós, Sara; Gregori, Alberto; Benatto, Gisele Alves dos Reis; Corazza, Michael; Madsen, Morten V.; Hösel, Markus; Beliatis, Michail J.; Larsen‐Olsen, Thue Trofod; Pastorelli, Francesco; Castro, António; Mingorance, Alba; Lenzi, Veniero; Fluhr, Daniel; Roesch, Roland; Maria Duarte Ramos, Marta; Savva, Achilleas; Hoppe, Harald; Marques, Luís Silvino Alves; Burgués, Ignasi; Georgiou, Efthymios; Serrano‐Luján, Lucia; Krebs, Frederik C.
• Is Part Of: Advanced energy materials. Volume 6:Issue 22(2016)
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• Publication Date: 2016-08-22
• Subjects: degradation -- lifetime baseline -- lifetime database -- organic photovoltaics; Energy harvesting -- Materials -- Periodicals; Energy conversion -- Materials -- Periodicals; Energy storage -- Materials -- Periodicals; Photovoltaics -- Periodicals; Fuel cells -- Periodicals; Thermoelectric materials -- Periodicals; 621.31
• DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201600910
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1614-6832

Abstract

Abstract : The process of accurately gauging lifetime improvements in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) or other similar emerging technologies, such as perovskites solar cells is still a major challenge. The presented work is part of a larger effort of developing a worldwide database of lifetimes that can help establishing reference baselines of stability performance for OPVs and other emerging PV technologies, which can then be utilized for pass‐fail testing standards and predicting tools. The study constitutes scanning of literature articles related to stability data of OPVs, reported until mid‐2015 and collecting the reported data into a database. A generic lifetime marker is utilized for rating the stability of various reported devices. The collected data is combined with an earlier developed and reported database, which was based on articles reported until mid‐2013. The extended database is utilized for establishing the baselines of lifetime for OPVs tested under different conditions. The work also provides the recent progress in stability of unencapsulated OPVs with different architectures, as well as presents the updated diagram of the reported record lifetimes of OPVs. The presented work is another step forward towards the development of pass‐fail testing standards and lifetime prediction tools for emerging PV technologies. Abstract : An extended database of lifetime for organic photovoltaics is presented. The data is utilized for establishing lifetime baselines for the samples tested under different aging conditions. The baselines can serve as a reference for gauging the improvements in device lifetimes in future reports. Encapsulated and unencapsulated samples with the best lifetimes reported in literature so far are listed as well.