Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells

Lukas Schmidt-Mende and Jonas Weickert, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.

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General history of solar cells
History of solar cells
First applications
First organic and hybrid solar cells
Brief Introduction to solar cells
Semiconductors (ligth matter interaction, light absorption, direct and indirect SCs)
Doping, pn-junctions
Solar cell parameters (current voltage, efficiency, efficiency limit)
Physics of pn-junction solar cells (recombination, equivalen circuit, type of losses)
Conventional solar cell architectures (materials, device structure, record devices)
Introduction into organic and hybrid solar cells
Organic semiconductors (molecules, polymers, pi-orbitals and transitions)
Organic solar cells
Device architecture (bulk-heterojuncion, bilayer)
Fundamental working principle
Morphology
Materials and processing
Physics of organic solar cells
Exciton generation and diffusion
Exciton separation and charge generation
Charge transport and extraction
Hybrid solar cells
Dye-sensitized solar cells (architecture, fundamental working principle, materials and processing, and physics)
Hybrid nanocrystal solar cells (architecture, fundamental working principle, materials and processing, and physics)
Nanostructured solar cells (architecture, fundamental working principle, materials and processing, and physics)
Experimental methods
Standard characterization methods (IV, EQE, IQE)
Spectroscopy methods
Mass production/ lifetime (roll-to-roll, printing, flexible substrates, stability, lifetime)

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