Researchers find that energy is transferred more efficiently inside of complex, 3D organic solar cells when the donor molecules align face-on.
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Deuterium changes the electronic properties of organic solar cells
Multidisciplinary ORNL team discovers unexpected effect of heavy hydrogen in organic solar cells.
Useful Uncertainty Causes Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
In a Review Article in the Advanced Materials 25th anniversary series, Nobel Laureate Alan J. Heeger discusses BHJ solar cell operation and how efficiencies can top 20%.
Protein-based solar cell handles variable light better
Protein-based photoelectrochemical cell produces a direct current under continuous light but a novel alternating current under discontinuous illumination.
Assessing printing technologies for polymer solar cells
Danish scientists analyze advantages and disadvantages of the most promising printing technologies for metal back electrodes used in polymer solar cells.
3D graphene: solar cells' new platinum?
A unique form of carbon could lower the cost of dye-sensitized solar cells.
Donor-acceptor diblock copolymers for polymer solar cells
Researchers from UT Austin found a powerful route to synthesize donor-acceptor block copolymers via a simple sequential monomer addition approach.
Improving solar cell design through photocatalysis
Chinese group show semiconductors can improve efficiency of photocatalysis, with potential in turn for better solar cells.
Imaging material defects in thin film solar cells
A team has, for the first time, succeeded in functionally characterizing the active layer in organic thin-film solar cells using laser light.
Researchers watch chalcopyrite solar cells grow in real time
Team manage to observe growth of thin-film solar cells in real time and to study the formation and degradation of defects that compromise efficiency.
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