58
39
th IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE
TECHNICAL AREA OVERVIEWS
ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS
Chair
Dana Olson, National Renewable
Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA
Co-Chairs
Moritz Riede, IAPP, Technische
Universität Dresden, Germany
Dean DeLongchamp, Nat’l Institute
of Standards and Technology
(
NIST), USA
Sub-Areas & Chairs
6.1:
Active Layer Materials
6.2:
Contacts and Interfaces
6.3:
Device Stability and Scale Up
6.4:
Tandem, OPV on Inorganic PV, and Light Management
6.5:
Hybrid and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs)
Organic solar cells are rapidly advancing technologies that
show potential for low-cost, light-weight, and flexible solar
power generation. With efficiencies in organic photovoltaic
(
OPV) devices approaching or exceeding 11% through
both single junction and tandem device architectures,
these technologies represent scalable PV technologies that
may soon demonstrate initial commercial viability. Despite
this remarkable progress, there is a need to increase our
understanding of the underlying processes in OPV devices
both at the nanoscale and bulk as well as the chemistry,
physics, and engineering issues behind OPV systems.
Furthermore, commercial viability needs to be enabled to fully
realize the advantages of OPV as a technology.
This symposium intends to address recent progress in devices
and processing in a wide range of organic related photovoltaic
technologies, including polymer solar cells, small molecule
solar cells, organic-inorganic hybrid, and dye-sensitized
solar cells. Novel interfacial and electrode materials, novel
device concepts and architectures, device lifetime, active
layer materials and characterization, and large-scale OPV
device/module fabrication methods are important topics to be
addressed. We especially encourage submissions describing
the emerging strategy of using OPV as a low-cost efficiency
enhancement layer in tandem with conventional inorganic
photovoltaics. The symposium hopes to bring together
efforts from a wide range of expertise to further facilitate the
development of this technology.
The primary focus will in five main areas that combine many
of the themes in the broad set of devices combining inorganic
and organic materials to develop low-cost, stable, high-
performance solar energy systems.
AREA 6 OVERVIEW
