Future of organic photovoltaics

What are organic photovoltaics?

Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative Boosted by the fast development of non-fullerene acceptors, organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have achieved breakthrough power conversion efficiencies — in excess of 20% and approaching those of state-of-the-art crystalline silicon photovoltaics.

Does organic photovoltaic technology have low power conversion efficiency?

Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering 1, 581–596 (2024) Cite this article Organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology is flexible, lightweight, semitransparent and ecofriendly, but it has historically suffered from low power conversion efficiency (PCE).

Can organic photovoltaics be commercialized?

Organic photovoltaics are flexible, lightweight and widely applicable, but they face commercialization challenges owing to stability and fabrication issues. This Review explores progress and technological bottlenecks in material innovation, morphology control, device stability and large-scale module fabrication for commercial use.

Are organic PV cells a good choice for building-integrated photovoltaics?

As clearly seen in Table 4, organic PV cells have a natural advantage over other types of PV cells due to their transparent characteristics, which make them ideal for integration with building-integrated photovoltaics, such as windows.

Do organic photovoltaic cells offer high VOC?

Z. Wang, A. Tang, H. Wang, Q. Guo, Q. Guo, X. Sun, Z. Xiao, L. Ding and E. Zhou, Organic photovoltaic cells offer ultrahigh VOC of ∼ 1.2 V under AM 1.5G light and a high efficiency of 21.2% under indoor light, Chem. Eng. J., 2023, 451(4), 1–8, DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.139080.

What is organic photovoltaic (OPV) 1?

For these applications, the heavy, rigid and opaque traditional inorganic photovoltaic devices are impractical, and organic photovoltaic (OPV) 1 devices are attractive candidates to fill the gap. Traditional inorganic photovoltaics are made of inorganic semiconductors such as silicon, gallium arsenide and copper indium gallium selenide.