Organic Photovoltaics Films: Fabrication, Properties, and Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2022) | Viewed by 5246
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organic semiconducting materials and devices; organic transistors; biosensors; graphene electrode; organic solar cells.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change, combined with increasing global energy consumption, demands greener alternative energy generation for the power industry to replace conventional coal-fired power production. Solar energy to electricity conversion is one of the highly invested directions in the electricity generation industry. The advantages of organic solar cells that can be produced on flexible substrates with lightweight carbon-based films make this class of solar cells very attractive in terms of commercialization. Since the first heterojunction organic photovoltaics with a power conversion efficiency of less than 1% was reported in 1986 by C. W. Tang, the performance of organic photovoltaics has greatly improved, reaching 17% in the latest reports. Fabrication methods used in organic photovoltaics, ranging from vacuum deposition and solution-processed spin-coating to roll-to-roll printing, have been explored over the past 35 years. Semiconducting materials used in organic photovoltaics can be small organic molecules or long conjugated polymers. The most crucial component of the device structure, the photoactive active layer, has undergone extensive examination in terms of its morphology, its chemical and physical properties, as well as its interaction at the interface with buffer layers. We wish to shed light on these films in greater detail in order to gain a deeper understanding of the photon–material interactions and charge generation and collection. This Special Issue of Coatings focuses on organic photovoltaics films, their fabrication, properties, and applications.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Photoactive polymers
- Heterojunction films
- Solution-processed photoactive films
- Nanoparticulate photoactive film
- Interfacial films in organic photovoltaics
Dr. Xiaojing Zhou
Guest Editor
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