Guest Editorial: Special Section on Organic Photovoltaics

摘要

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have a long history, stretching back three decades into the 1980s, when first studies were conducted on the photogeneration of charge carriers at interfaces in organic solids. Compared to inorganic photovoltaics, OPVs offer many advantages, such as low cost, high throughput production, flexible devices, lightweight products, as well as custom - designed colors. In the last decade, research activities have intensified to increase the power conversion efficiencies and lifetimes of OPVs and make them more competitive with their inorganic counterparts.