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Review on Recent Progress on Sandwich‐Structure Hybrid Solar Cells
Author(s) -
Chen HsinYi,
Kao ShaoHsuan,
Lin ChingFuh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
energy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2194-4296
pISSN - 2194-4288
DOI - 10.1002/ente.201300044
Subject(s) - hybrid solar cell , materials science , nanotechnology , organic solar cell , hybrid system , photovoltaic system , energy conversion efficiency , engineering physics , engineering , polymer solar cell , optoelectronics , computer science , electrical engineering , machine learning
We review the recent developments and techniques applied to hybrid solar cells. Hybrid solar cells have progressed rapidly in the past few years. The highest efficiency of hybrid solar cells has exceeded 10 %, meeting the commercial requirement for production. In addition, their stability has been improved significantly using sandwiched structures with the enormous achievement of retaining their efficiency within 95 % of the maximum value after 4800 h in air without encapsulation. The synthesis of new organic photoactive materials has helped to induce high efficiencies, and new designs for the device structure have led to enhanced stability, which has been a major factor in enabling such significant progress in hybrid solar cells. The latest advances and achievements for hybrid solar cells will be reviewed in this paper.