Semi-transparent polymer solar cells with excellent sub-bandgap transmission for third generation photovoltaics
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Beiley, Zach M.Christoforo, Mark Greyson
Gratia, Paul
Bowring, Andrea R.
Eberspacher, Petra
Margulis, George Y.
Cabanetos, Clement
Beaujuge, Pierre

Salleo, Alberto
McGehee, Michael D.
KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionChemical Science Program
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
KAUST Grant Number
KUS-C1-015-21Date
2013-10-07Online Publication Date
2013-10-07Print Publication Date
2013-12Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563037
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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.Citation
Beiley, Z. M., Christoforo, M. G., Gratia, P., Bowring, A. R., Eberspacher, P., Margulis, G. Y., … McGehee, M. D. (2013). Semi-Transparent Polymer Solar Cells with Excellent Sub-Bandgap Transmission for Third Generation Photovoltaics. Advanced Materials, 25(48), 7020–7026. doi:10.1002/adma.201301985Sponsors
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
WileyJournal
Advanced MaterialsPubMed ID
24123497ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/adma.201301985
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