Semi-transparent polymer solar cells with excellent sub-bandgap transmission for third generation photovoltaics

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Article
Authors
Beiley, Zach M.
Christoforo, Mark Greyson
Gratia, Paul
Bowring, Andrea R.
Eberspacher, Petra
Margulis, George Y.
Cabanetos, Clement
Beaujuge, Pierre cc
Salleo, Alberto
McGehee, Michael D.
KAUST Department
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE) Division
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
Chemical Science Program
Date
2013-10-07

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Abstract
Semi-transparent organic photovoltaics are of interest for a variety of photovoltaic applications, including solar windows and hybrid tandem photovoltaics. The figure shows a photograph of our semi-transparent solar cell, which has a power conversion efficiency of 5.0%, with an above bandgap transmission of 34% and a sub-bandgap transmission of 81%. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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This research was based upon work supported by the Department of Energy through the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium under Award Number DE-EE0004946, and by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (CAMP) (Award no. KUS-C1-015-21) made by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Work was performed in part at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility's nSiL lab, which was funded by National Science Foundation (award ARI-0963061). Additional funding was provided by the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (Z.M.B.), the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (A.R.B.), Baseline Research Funding from KAUST (P.M.B.), and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. Thanks to Rommel Noufi at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for providing the CIGS cell used as the bottom cell of the hybrid tandem devices.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal
Advanced Materials
ISSN
09359648
DOI
10.1002/adma.201301985
PubMed ID
24123497
Handle URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563037
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