Organic semiconductors may produce efficient, low-cost solar cell

摘要

Unlike the majority of today's expensive, inorganic, silicon-based semiconductor solar cells, a new solar cell being created will be less costly since it will be developed from organic, or carbon-based, semiconductors made from polymers. Diane Hinkens, a researcher in the South Dakota State University (SDSU) department of electrical engineering, is working with Qiquan Qiao, an assistant professor in the department's Center for Advanced Photovoltaics, and Seth Darling, an assistant scientist at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials, to design, synthesize, and eventually fabricate a more efficient and less costly solar cell using organic semiconductors.