Issue 9, 2013
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Energy & Environmental Science

High-performance semi-transparent polymer solar cells possessing tandem structures†

Chun-Chao Chen,a   Letian Dou,ab   Jing Gao,a   Wei-Hsuan Chang,ab   Gang Lia  and  Yang Yang*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Departments of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
E-mail: yangy@ucla.edu

b California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA

Abstract

In this study we employed tandem device architectures to tune the external appearance and light-conversion properties of polymer solar cells (PSCs) from visibly transparent to semi-transparent, making them more versatile for integrated photovoltaic applications and more efficient under solar illumination. Our best transparent solar cell was a tandem PSC exhibiting an efficiency of 6.4% and a maximum transmission of 51% at 550 nm; in contrast, a semi-transparent tandem PSC having an average transmission of 30% in the visible range exhibited an efficiency greater than 7%.

Graphical abstract: High-performance semi-transparent polymer solar cells possessing tandem structures

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3EE40860D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Mar 2013
Accepted
26 Jun 2013
First published
26 Jul 2013

Energy Environ. Sci., 2013,6, 2714-2720

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High-performance semi-transparent polymer solar cells possessing tandem structures

C. Chen, L. Dou, J. Gao, W. Chang, G. Li and Y. Yang, Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 2714 DOI: 10.1039/C3EE40860D

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