Polymer:fullerene solar cells: materials, processing issues, and cell layouts to reach power conversion efficiency over 10%, a review

Light-induced electron spin resonance as a probe for charge separation and recombination in hybrid donor:acceptor systems

“…Key features of this approach are the possibility to deposit the active layer by printing technologies and the compatibility with roll-to-roll production [1][2][3]. Deposition of the absorber layer from a liquid medium is possible in different types of photovoltaic devices, among them organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells [4][5][6][7], hybrid BHJ solar cells [8][9][10][11], quantum dot solar cells [11][12][13], and perovskite solar cells [14][15][16]. Even in the case of thin film solar cells with absorber layers composed of Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se) 2 (CIS/CIGS) or Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS), strategies to produce these semiconductors from solution-cast precursor layers are subject of current research [17][18][19][20].…”

Maximum-power-point tracking during outdoor ageing of solar cells

“…In recent years emerging solar cell technologies (dye-sensitized solar cells DSSCs (O'Regan and Grätzel, 1991;Hagfeldt et al, 2010;Ye et al, 2015;Sharifi et al, 2014), organic solar cells Etxebarria et al, 2015;Yan and Saunders, 2014), etc.) and concepts (plasmonic Spalatu et al, 2015;Morawiec et al, 2014;Baek et al, 2014;Yao et al, 2014;Lu et al, 2014, quantum dots (Kouhnavard et al, 2014Labelle et al, 2015), etc.)…”

Exploring the catalytic activity of metal‐fullerene C 58 M (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu) toward oxygen reduction and CO oxidation by density functional theory

“…Recently, fullerenes and their derivatives became a research hot spot and were applied in many fields. For example, the derivatives of C 60 can be used in the fields of biosensors, 16,17 screen-printed systems, 18,19 solar cells, 20,21 fuel cells, 22,23 and so on. For fuel cell catalysis, pristine fullerene is inert to catalyze ORR, which makes modification indispensable.…”