Organic and Organic-Inorganic Solar Cells: From Bulk Heterojunction to Perovskite Solar Cells

Abstract

Due to the negative impact on the environmental using fossil fuels, photovoltaic (PV) technology has become a new alternative for renewable energy in the last two decades. Although inorganic solar cells have dominated in the PV field, metal-free organic compounds have introduced a new challenge because of their great properties that include: i) high light-harvesting ranges, ii) optical-and electrochemical properties can be easily tuned by decorating their structure through a several synthetic approaches, and iii) their technology has high flexibility and low manufacturing cost. In this short review, we depicted our work in the synthesis of organic compounds and their applications in the PV field, specifically in bulk heterojunction solar cells (BHJSCs), dyesensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and organic-inorganic perovskites solar cells (O-IPSCs).

Exploring the potential of tetraazaacene derivatives as photovoltaic materials with enhanced photovoltaic parameters

“…Combustion of these fuels causes severe environmental issues, that is, addition of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere [2]. Global warming caused by these greenhouse gases is the major environmental concern nowadays affecting biotic, abiotic lives, and ecosystems on our earth [3]. Due to all these environmental concerns, researchers are looking forward to introduce some alternative energy sources which would be environment friendly, cost‐effective, and efficient [4].…”

ZnO-CuO Based Inorganic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Influence of Thickness of the Spin-Coated Bulk-Heterojunction Film

“…This can be achieved by optimizing the active layer thickness of the cells [38,39]. There are lots of articles that have been studied and reported already on organic bulk heterojunction [40][41][42][43][44][45], hybrid bulk heterojunction [46][47][48][49], and inorganic bulk heterojunction [50][51][52][53] thin-film solar cells. However, entirely inorganic, the earth-abundant, inexpensive, environmentally benign metal oxides ZnO/CuO based bulk heterojunction solar cells have been hardly found.…”

Carbon Dots: An Insight into Their Application in Heavy Metal Sensing

“…In the last decade, the development of novel functional electronic devices had gained much attention owing to the increasing problems regarding energy consumption and fossil fuels. These electronic devices are made from organic, inorganic, and combined organic-inorganic materials, and offer the possibility of tunable long-term stability, conductivity, and photoluminescence properties through subtle structural changes that resulted in wide-range applications, such as photovoltaic (PV) [1], artificial photosynthesis [2], and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) [3].…”