TY - GEN
T1 - Efficient organic bulk heterojunction solar cells through near infrared absorbing metallated thiophene complexes
AU - Yoon, Woo Jun
AU - Ghosh, Yagnaseni
AU - Alberding, Brian
AU - Chisholm, Malcolm H.
AU - Berger, Paul R.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Recently novel metallo-organic (MO) complexes have been synthesized by the Chisholm group at Ohio State, leading to the potential for a MO complex:fullerene bulk heterojuction solar cell that overcomes the limitations of current polymer:fullerene BHJ solar cell by expanding the usable solar spectrum into the near infrared. These metallated oligimers provide for high absorption at longer wavelengths of solar energy and with very long lifetimes of created electrons for high collection efficiency, leading to a potential efficiency enhancement over conventional organic solar cells. However, many fundamental issues dealing with processability and optimum device topology need to be addressed for this new chemistry system to move from the Chemistry lab to a viable device platform. In this work, prerequisites and preliminary findings of MO complexes for efficient photovoltaic operation are mainly discussed.
AB - Recently novel metallo-organic (MO) complexes have been synthesized by the Chisholm group at Ohio State, leading to the potential for a MO complex:fullerene bulk heterojuction solar cell that overcomes the limitations of current polymer:fullerene BHJ solar cell by expanding the usable solar spectrum into the near infrared. These metallated oligimers provide for high absorption at longer wavelengths of solar energy and with very long lifetimes of created electrons for high collection efficiency, leading to a potential efficiency enhancement over conventional organic solar cells. However, many fundamental issues dealing with processability and optimum device topology need to be addressed for this new chemistry system to move from the Chemistry lab to a viable device platform. In this work, prerequisites and preliminary findings of MO complexes for efficient photovoltaic operation are mainly discussed.
U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411134
DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411134
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951540307
SN - 9781424429509
T3 - Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
SP - 942
EP - 944
BT - 2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2009
PB - IEEE
T2 - IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
Y2 - 7 June 2009 through 12 June 2009
ER -
