Stable Organic Solar Cells with Mg:Ag Contacts

Stretchable organic solar cells.

Organic Solar Cells

MRS BULLETIN • VOLUME 33 • JULY 2008 • www.mrs.org/bulletin Abstract Organic solar cells, based on polymer/fullerene-blend films, are advancing rapidly toward commercial viability. In this article, we review recent progress on two issues critical for technological applications: device photovoltaic efficiencies and processing technologies for high-throughput production. In terms of device effici...

Conductive and Stable Magnesium Oxide Electron-Selective Contacts for Efficient Silicon Solar Cells

DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201601863 level of recombination suppression at the rear surface. When Al is directly deposited on n-type c-Si, however, and even if it is not alloyed with the silicon, the contact behaves in a rectifying fashion and is associated with a high contact resistance, despite the small difference (≈0.1–0.2 eV) that exists between the Al work function and the electron affinity of sil...

Organic solar cells: An overview

Organic solar cell research has developed during the past 30 years, but especially in the last decade it has attracted scientific and economic interest triggered by a rapid increase in power conversion efficiencies. This was achieved by the introduction of new materials, improved materials engineering, and more sophisticated device structures. Today, solar power conversion efficiencies in exces...

Comparison of organic solar cells and inorganic solar cells

The fluctuating price of energy, due to a variety of reasons ranging from geo-political constraints to national and international economic issues, and the fact that these energy resources are finite, can be seen as the main incentives to make a transition to a clean energy society. Solar energy is just one of many ways to make this transition a reality, and of the raft of clean energy technolog...