Architectures and criteria for the design of high efficiency organic photovoltaic cells

Rand, Barry; Forrest, Stephen R; Burk, Diana Pendergrast

Title: Architectures and criteria for the design of high efficiency organic photovoltaic cells

Patent · Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1174192

Rand, Barry; Forrest, Stephen R; Burk, Diana Pendergrast

An organic photovoltaic cell includes an anode and a cathode, and a plurality of organic semiconductor layers between the anode and the cathode. At least one of the anode and the cathode is transparent. Each two adjacent layers of the plurality of organic semiconductor layers are in direct contact. The plurality of organic semiconductor layers includes an intermediate layer consisting essentially of a photoconductive material, and two sets of at least three layers. A first set of at least three layers is between the intermediate layer and the anode. Each layer of the first set consists essentially of a different organic semiconductor material having a higher LUMO and a higher HOMO, relative to the material of an adjacent layer of the plurality of organic semiconductor layers closer to the cathode. A second set of at least three layers is between the intermediate layer and the cathode. Each layer of the second set consists essentially of a different organic semiconductor material having a lower LUMO and a lower HOMO, relative to the material of an adjacent layer of the plurality of organic semiconductor layers closer to the anode.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-98-GO10337

Assignee:: The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

Patent Number(s):: 8,987,589

Application Number:: 11/486,163

OSTI ID:: 1174192

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2006 Jul 14

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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