Visibly transparent polymer solar cells produced by solution processing

Chun Chao Chen; Letian Dou; Rui Zhu; Choong Heui Chung; Tze Bin Song; Yue Bing Zheng; Steve Hawks; Gang Li; Paul S. Weiss; Yang Yang

doi:10.1021/nn3029327

Visibly transparent polymer solar cells produced by solution processing

Chun Chao Chen, Letian Dou, Rui Zhu, Choong Heui Chung, Tze Bin Song, Yue Bing Zheng, Steve Hawks, Gang Li, Paul S. Weiss, Yang Yang

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Abstract

Visibly transparent photovoltaic devices can open photovoltaic applications in many areas, such as building-integrated photovoltaics or integrated photovoltaic chargers for portable electronics. We demonstrate high-performance, visibly transparent polymer solar cells fabricated via solution processing. The photoactive layer of these visibly transparent polymer solar cells harvests solar energy from the near-infrared region while being less sensitive to visible photons. The top transparent electrode employs a highly transparent silver nanowire-metal oxide composite conducting film, which is coated through mild solution processes. With this combination, we have achieved 4% power-conversion efficiency for solution-processed and visibly transparent polymer solar cells. The optimized devices have a maximum transparency of 66% at 550 nm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7185-7190
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACS Nano
Volume	6
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nn3029327
Publication status	Published - 28 Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

polymer solar cell
silver nanowire
solution process
transparent electrode
transparent solar cell

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Engineering(all)
Physics and Astronomy(all)

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