Organic Photovoltaics : Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies

by Brabec , Christoph; Scherf , Ullrich; Dyakonov , Vladimir

• ISBN13: 9783527316755
• ISBN10: 3527316752
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-05
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

Providing complementary viewpoints from academia as well as technology companies, this book covers the three most important aspects of successful device design: materials, device physics, and manufacturing technologies. It also offers an insight into commercialization concerns, such as packaging technologies, system integration, reel-to-reel large scale manufacturing issues and production costs. With an introduction by Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger.

Author Biography

Christoph J. Brabec is director of the polymer photovoltaics programme at Konarka Technologies. After completing his Ph.D. in 1995, he joined the group of Prof Alan Heeger at the University of Santa Barbara, USA, for a sabbatical in 1996, and continued to work on the opto-electronic properties of organic semiconductors as assistant professor at the University of Linz with Prof. Serdar Sariciftci. In 1998, he became senior scientist of the Christian Doppler Laboratory on organic solar cells, which he left in 2001 to join Siemens Corporate Technology as project leader for organic semiconductor devices. He finished his habilitation in physical chemistry at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz in 2003, and is author and co-author of more than 100 papers and has filed over 30 patents.

Vladimir Dyakonov is full professor of experimental physics at the University of W++rzburg, Germany, and scientific director of the Bavarian Centre of Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern) in W++rzburg. He obtained his diploma degree in physics from the University of Saint Petersburg, his Ph.D. from the A. F. Ioffe-Institute in Russia and his habilitation degree from the University of Oldenburg, Germany in 1986, 1996 and 2001, respectively. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as post-doctoral fellow at the universities of Antwerp, Belgium, and Linz, Austria.

Ullrich Scherf is full professor for Macromolecular Chemistry at Bergische Universit+ñt Wuppertal, Germany. He studied chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1988 and subsequently spent one year at the Institute for Animal Physiology of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. He joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz in 1990 and completed his habilitation in 1996 on polyarylene-type ladder polymers. He followed a call to the University of Potsdam, Germany, onto a professorship for polymer chemistry. He has published over 350 refereed papers and received the Meyer-Struckmann Research Award in 1998.

Table of Contents

Materials	p. 1
Donors	p. 1
Regioregular Polythiophene Solar Cells: Material Properties and Performance	p. 3
Fluorene-Containlng Polymers for Solar Cell Applications	p. 57
Carbazole-Based Conjugated Polymers as Donor Material for Photovoltaic Devices	p. 93
New Construction of Low-Bandgap Conducting Polymers	p. 129
Acceptors	p. 153
Fullerene-Based Acceptor Materials	p. 155
Hybrid Polymer/Nanocrystal Photovoltaic Devices	p. 179
Transport Layers	p. 211
PEDOT-Type Materials in Organic Solar Cells	p. 213
The Dispersion Approach for Buffer Layers and for the Active Light Absorption layer	p. 243
Device Physics	p. 261
Overview of the State-of-the-Art	p. 261
Titanium Oxide Films as Multifunctional Components in Bulk Heterojunction "Plastic" Solar Cells	p. 263
Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells	p. 281
Performance Improvement of Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cells Due to Balanced Charge Transport	p. 283
Morphology of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells	p. 299
Hybrid Solar Cells	p. 327
TiO[subscript 2] Template/Polymer Solar Cells	p. 329
Metal Oxide-Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells	p. 357
Technology	p. 399
Electrodes	p. 399
High-Performance Electrodes for Organic Photovoltaics	p. 401
Reel-to-Reel Processing of Highly Conductive Metal Oxides	p. 425
Novel Electrode Structures for Organic Photovoltaic Devices	p. 441
Packaging	p. 469
Flexible Substrates Requirements for Organic Photovoltaics	p. 471
Barrier Films for Photovoltaics Applications	p. 491
Production	p. 511
Roll-to-Roll Processing of Thin-Film Organic Semiconductors	p. 513
Socio-Economic Impact of Low-Cost PV Technologies	p. 531
Index	p. 567
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