Journal
POLYMERS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym10010005
Keywords
polymer solar cells; transparent electrodes; performance; flexibility; stability
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB643503]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0206600]
- Key Research Program of Frontier Science, CAS [QYZDB-SSW-SLH006]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61674141, 61504134, 21503209]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [2162042]
- Hebei Normal University of Science Technology
- Hundred-Talent Program (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Polymer solar cells have shown good prospect for development due to their advantages of low-cost, light-weight, solution processable fabrication, and mechanical flexibility. Their compatibility with the industrial roll-to-roll manufacturing process makes it superior to other kind of solar cells. Normally, indium tin oxide (ITO) is adopted as the transparent electrode in polymer solar cells, which combines good conductivity and transparency. However, some intrinsic weaknesses of ITO restrict its large scale applications in the future, including a high fabrication price using high temperature vacuum deposition method, scarcity of indium, brittleness and scaling up of resistance with the increase of area. Some substitutes to ITO have emerged in recent years, which can be used in flexible polymer solar cells. This article provides the review on recent progress using other transparent electrodes, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, metal nanowires and nanogrids, conductive polymer, and some other electrodes. Device stability is also discussed briefly.
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