Current status of outdoor lifetime testing of organic photovoltaics

Y Zhang, IDW Samuel, T Wang… - Advanced Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Performance degradation is one of the key obstacles limiting the commercial application of
organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices. The assessment of OPV stability and lifetime are usually …

Development of spray-coated perovskite solar cells

JE Bishop, JA Smith, DG Lidzey - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Over the past six years, researchers have investigated the use of spray coating to fabricate
perovskite solar cells (PSCs), with the aim of demonstrating its viability as an industrial …

Engineering polymer solar cells: advancement in active layer thickness and morphology

RK Gupta, R Garai, M Hossain, MA Afroz… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Achieving high power conversion efficiency (PCE) polymer solar cells (PSCs) has been very
challenging and the ultimate goal for their commercialization. Precise investigation of the …

Spray‐cast multilayer organometal perovskite solar cells fabricated in air

DK Mohamad, J Griffin, C Bracher… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Spray‐coating is a versatile coating technique that can be used to deposit functional films
over large areas at speed. Here, spray‐coating is used to fabricate inverted perovskite solar …

Advances in spray-cast perovskite solar cells

JE Bishop, TJ Routledge, DG Lidzey - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Spray-coating is a deposition technique that is widely used in industry and could in principle
be used to fabricate perovskite photovoltaic (PV) devices at low cost and high volume. As …

Fully-sprayed flexible polymer solar cells with a cellulose-graphene electrode

L La Notte, P Cataldi, L Ceseracciu, IS Bayer… - Materials Today …, 2018 - Elsevier
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology provides energy where conventional photovoltaics
are difficult to implement. The rise of efficiency due to the introduction of new polymers and …

Understanding and controlling morphology evolution via DIO plasticization in PffBT4T-2OD/PC71BM devices

Y Zhang, AJ Parnell, F Pontecchiani, JFK Cooper… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
We demonstrate that the inclusion of a small amount of the co-solvent 1, 8-diiodooctane in
the preparation of a bulk-heterojunction photovoltaic device increases its power conversion …

The impacts of PbI 2 purity on the morphology and device performance of one-step spray-coated planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells

J Yao, L Yang, F Cai, Y Yan, RS Gurney… - Sustainable Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We have fabricated planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by one-step ultrasonic spray-
coating of the perovskite precursor solution in air. Uniform perovskite films with high surface …

Toward all aerosol printing of high-efficiency organic solar cells using environmentally friendly solvents in ambient air

P Yang, T Zhai, B Yu, G Du, B Mi, X Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With the surge of the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) in
recent years, the commercialization of OSCs calls for scalable and environmentally friendly …

Comparative indoor and outdoor stability measurements of polymer based solar cells

Y Zhang, H Yi, A Iraqi, J Kingsley, A Buckley, T Wang… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
We report comparative indoor and outdoor stability testing of organic solar cells based on a
blend between a donor-acceptor polyfluorene copolymer and a fullerene derivative. The …