CHAPTER 12: Semi-Transparent Polymer Solar Cells for Power Generating Window Applications
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Published:08 Sep 2015
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Series: Polymer Chemistry Series
H. Yip and A. K. Jen, in Polymer Photovoltaics: Materials, Physics, and Device Engineering, ed. F. Huang, H. Yip, and Y. Cao, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015, pp. 352-375.
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Realization of semitransparent organic photovoltaic cells (ST-OPVs) is an important step toward new applications such as power-generating tinted thin film coated coating on building windows, foldable curtains, automobile windshields, and other architectural and fashion elements. In this chapter, an overview of the state-of-the-art ST-OPVs are discussed, and together with several important factors that are required to achieving achieve high performance ST-OPVs, including the development of new transparent electrodes, efficient low-bandgap materials, new device structures, and optical engineering are discussed.
