APL Energy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 3(2)
Published: May 13, 2025
Organic solar cells (OSCs) are emerging as a viable alternative, and complementary niche of applications, to the conventional silicon-based photovoltaics due their unique attributes, including flexibility, lightweight, semitransparency, ease processing. Recent breakthroughs in non-fullerene acceptors advanced polymer donors have led power conversion efficiencies exceeding 20%, closing gap with traditional technologies. These advancements driven by innovations material design engineering, enhanced understanding device morphology, improvements fabrication architectures, well state-of-the-art characterization techniques. Despite these achievements, significant challenges remain, such improving long-term stability under environmental stress, upscaling OSCs from lab-scale devices large-area modules through printing technologies, achieving cost-effective scalability for mass production. This review also highlights OSCs’ transformative potential applications semi-transparent photovoltaic windows, flexible/wearable electronics, agricultural systems, paving way alternative sustainable multifunctional energy solutions.
Language: Английский