Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) represent a transformative technology with great potential for extremely high-throughput manufacturing at very low cost, and are made from non-toxic, earth-abundant materials with low energy inputs. They have the potential to serve as lightweight, flexible, conformal, and low-cost solid-state power sources.
They have the potential to serve as lightweight, flexible, conformal, and low-cost solid-state power sources. However, their performance must be improved before they can be viable for commercial applications.
Quantum dots being explored for use in photovoltaics and in signal processing. This shows professional laboratory procedures for synthesizing quantum dots. Nanoprisms are used to adjust color of chemical systems they are mixed with for example in organic photovoltaic devices. The size of the nanoprisms determines the absorption wavelength.
Realization of semitransparent organic photovoltaic cells (STOPV) is an important step toward the solution to the problems encountered in new applications such as power-generating tinted thin films coated on the screens of the laptops, automobile windshields, house windows, foldable curtains, and other architectural and fashion applications.
The overall objective of our OPV research is to use an integrated approach combining material, optical, electrode, and device engineering to demonstrate the feasibility of using solution processing to fabricate high-performance flexible organic photovoltaic device and module.