JUNE 8-13, 2014 • DENVER, COLORADO
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TECHNICAL AREA OVERVIEWS
ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS
Chair: Moritz Riede, University of Oxford,
United Kingdom
Co-Chairs:
Eszter Voroshazi, imec, Belgium
Dana Olson, NREL, CO, USA
Liaison Co-Chair:
Yang Yang, UCLA, CA, USA
Area 6 Description
This focus area covers the latest scientific and technical
progress for a broad range of solar cells that fall in the
category Organic Photovoltaics (OPV). OPV has continued
to show tremendous progress in the past years. Solar cell
efficiencies have rocketed to well above 10% and operating
lifetimes have reached more than 10 years. Based on
abundant materials and scalable coating technologies,
OPV shows potential for low-cost, lightweight, and flexible
solar power generation. Based on these prospects, many
companies around the world are putting considerable efforts
towards commercializing OPV. Organic photovoltaics – a
prime example of interdisciplinary research drawing together
expertise from chemistry, materials, physics, and engineering
– will soon have to prove its viability in the market.
Despite this remarkable progress, much of the underlying
physical processes and their limitations have yet to be
better understood. Similarly, scale-up in manufacturing
volume has proven challenging for fast progress towards
commercialization. The goal of this focus area is to
address these issues, ranging from fundamental science to
technological advances.
Sub-Area Chairs
Hugo Bronstein (UCL, London, United Kingdom), Eric Hoke
(Stanford University, USA), Sumit Chaudhary (Iowa State
University, IA, USA), Wolfgang Tress (University of Linköping,
Sweden), Suren Gevorgyan (DTU, Denmark), Jan Gilot
(TNO, Netherlands)
AREA 6 OVERVIEW
