CONTROL OF PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE DISPERSION IN BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS AND CONSEQUENCES ON ACTIVE LAYER NANOSTRUCTURE

摘要

Interest in tapping the vast reservoir of solar energy radiated upon the Earth each day, for economic, security, and environmental reasons, has encouraged significant public and private investment into solar energy harvesting technologies. Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) provide exciting potential advantages over their traditional inorganic counterparts, including solution processability, mechanical flexibility, quick energy payback time, and lower manufacturing cost. These traits make optimized OPVs ideal for a diverse set of mobile, integrated device niches for which heavy, expensive, and rigid inorganic solar modules are ill-suited.