A Review of Organic Photovoltaic Energy Source and Its Technological Designs

Abstract

This study reviews and describes some of the existing research and mechanisms of operation of organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Introduced first are problems that exist with traditional fossil fuels that result in most of the world energy challenges such as environmental pollution. This is followed by the description of baseline organic solar cell (OSC) structures and materials. Then, some of the existing modelling approaches that have implemented either a one-or a two-dimensional drift-diffusion model to examine OSC structures are reviewed, and their reproducibility is examined. Both experimental and modelling approaches reviewed are particularly important for more and better designed research to probe practical procedural problems associated with OSCs that hinder the commercialization of OPV technology.

Current Status of Emerging PV Technologies: A Comparative Study of Dye-Sensitized, Organic, and Perovskite Solar Cells

“…Dye sensitized solar cells [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Perovskite solar cells [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Organic solar cells [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] Future outlook and challenges Dye sensitized solar cells Perovskite solar cells Organic solar cells Sustainable solar energy applications Perovskite solar cells [144][145] Organic solar cells [146][147][148][149][150] Dye sensitized solar cells [137][138][139][140][141][142][143] Figure 2: Outline of the main structure and literature citations of the paper.…”

Application of organic photovoltaic materials (OPV) as greenhouse roof structures: A review

“…The commonly used organic donors are poly(2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1-4phenylenevinylene) (MEH-PPV), poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV), poly(p-phenylene benzobisthiazole) (PBZT), P3HT, poly[2-methoxy-5-(3′,7′-dimethyloctyloxy)]-p-1-4phenylenevinylene (MDMO-PPV) etc. For organic acceptors, examples of the commonly used are poly(benzamidazobenzophenanthroline) (BBL), PCBM, poly(2,5,2′,5′-tetraalkoxy-7,8′-dicyanodi-p-phenylenevinylene) (CN-PPV), poly [2-alkoxy-5-alkanesulfonyl-1-4-phenylene vinylene] (SF-PPV) etc (Rwenyagila, 2017). These organic materials have attracted more considerable sight because they have the potential to provide flexible, inexpensive electronics, environmentally safe and lightweight (Jannat et al, 2013).…”

Semi-Transparent Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Dielectric/Metal/Dielectric Top Electrode: Influence of the Metal on Their Performances

“…Therefore, for semi-transparent OPVs, it is not appropriate to use optimal organic layer thickness. It is known that, the diffusion length of excitons being smaller than the organic layer thickness necessary to absorb light, the geometry of bulk heterojunction (BHJ) was used with success [7][8][9][10][11], while in the case of planar heterojunctions (PHJs), the excitons created too far from the electron donor/electron acceptor interface are lost, which, contrary to the case of BHJs, limits the thickness of PHJs and, therefore, their efficiency [12]. However, as said above, in the case of semi-transparent OPVs, we must not use the optimum thickness to preserve some OPV transparency, so we chose the PHJ-OPV configuration to grow semi-transparent devices.…”