High efficiency organic photovoltaic cells employing hybridized mixed-planar heterojunctions
Abstract
A device is provided, having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoactive region disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The photoactive region includes a first photoactive organic layer that is a mixture of an organic acceptor material and an organic donor material, wherein the first photoactive organic layer has a thickness not greater than 0.8 characteristic charge transport lengths; a second photoactive organic layer in direct contact with the first organic layer, wherein the second photoactive organic layer is an unmixed layer of the organic acceptor material of the first photoactive organic layer, and the second photoactive organic layer has a thickness not less than about 0.1 optical absorption lengths; and a third photoactive organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and in direct contact with the first photoactive organic layer. The third photoactive organic layer is an unmixed layer of the organic donor layer of the first photoactive organic layer and has a thickness not less than about 0.1 optical absorption lengths.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1210224
- Patent Number(s):
- 9112164
- Application Number:
- 14/068,430
- Assignee:
- The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B82 - NANOTECHNOLOGY B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-99GO10337
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2013 Oct 31
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY
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Xue, Jiangeng, Uchida, Soichi, Rand, Barry P., and Forrest, Stephen. High efficiency organic photovoltaic cells employing hybridized mixed-planar heterojunctions. United States: N. p., 2015.
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