Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies

Introduction I. MATERIALS FOR THIN FILM ORGANIC PV Donors - Polythiophenes and their PV Properties - Polyfluorenes and Fluorene-based Copolymers and their PV Properties - Low Bandgap Systems for Organic PV - Small Molecules for Organic PV Acceptors - Fullerenes - Polymeric Acceptors Solution Processable Nanoparticles and Sol Gel Materials - The Chemistry of Sol Gel ITO, TiOx, ZnOx as Photovoltaic Components - Inorganic Nanoparticles for Hybrid Solar Cells Transport Layers - PEDOT - PANI II. DEVICE PHYSICS OF THIN FILM ORGANIC PV Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells - Overview of the State of the Art of Organic Solar Cells - Overview on the Photophysics of Organic Solar Cells - Device Physics of Organic Solar Cells - Transport Phenomena in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells - Morphology of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Hybrid Solar Cells - TiOx Template / Polymer Solar Cells - TiOx and ZnO Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Small Molecule Multilayer Solar Cells - TiOx III. TECHNOLOGY FOR THIN FILM ORGANIC PV Electrodes for Thin Film PV - High Performance Electrodes - R2R Processing of Highly Conductive Metal Oxides - Novel Electrode Structures for Thin Film PV Packaging of Thin Film PV - Flexible Substrates Requirements for Organic Photovoltaics - Barrier Films for Photovoltaic Applications) Production of Thin Film PV - R2R Processing of Thin Film Organic Semiconductors - Costs, components and System Integration of Organic Photovoltaics New Concepts and Outlook - Limitations of Solid State Photovoltaics