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High-Efficient Low-Cost Photovoltaics pp 195–222Cite as

Design Rules for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

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There has been an intensive search for cost-effective photovoltaics since the development of the first solar cells in the 1950s [1-3]. Among all the alternative technologies to silicon-based pn-junction solar cells, organic solar cells are the approach that could lead to the most significant cost reduction [4]. The field of organic photovoltaics (OPV) is composed of organic/inorganic nanostructures, like the dyesensitized solar cell, multilayers of small organic molecules and mixtures of organic materials (bulk-heterojunction solar cell). A review of several so-called organic photovoltaic (OPV) technologies was recently presented [5].

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Zhu, Z. et al. (2009). Design Rules for Efficient Organic Solar Cells. In: Petrova-Koch, V., Hezel, R., Goetzberger, A. (eds) High-Efficient Low-Cost Photovoltaics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79359-5_13

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