Journal
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 8, Issue 28, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201801352
Keywords
optical gap; organic solar cells; Shockley-Queisser limit; voltage losses
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Funding
- Swedish Research Council VR [2017-00744]
- Swedish Energy Agency Energimyndigheten [2016-010174]
- Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoping University [2009-00971]
- DFG [KI-1571/2-1]
- China Scholarship Council
- Swedish Research Council [2017-00744] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
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The voltage loss, determined by the difference between the optical gap (E-g) and the open-circuit voltage (V-OC), is one of the most important parameters determining the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the variety of different methods used to determine E-g makes it hard to fairly compare voltages losses among different material systems. In this paper, the authors discuss and compare various E-g determination methods and show how they affect the detailed calculation of voltage losses, as well as predictions of the maximum achievable power conversion efficiency. The aim of this paper is to make it possible for the OSC community to compare voltage losses in a consistent and reasonable way. It is found that the voltage losses for strongly absorbed photons in state-of-the-art OSCs are not much less than 0.6 V, which still must be decreased to further enhance efficiency.
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