Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Plasmonic Photovoltaics Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Molecular Solar Cells Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Advanced Electric Grid Grid Storage Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Efforts All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

Molecular Solar Cells

Start Date: May 2007
Status: Completed

Investigators

Peter Peumans, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Annual Reports

Publications

Gaynor, W., J.-Y. Lee and P. Peumans. “Fully Solution-Processed Inverted Polymer Solar Cells With Laminated Nanowire Electrodes.” ACS Nano, Vol. 4 (1), 30-34 (2010).
Lee, J-Y., S. T. Connor, Y. Cui and P. Peumans. “Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Laminated Top Electrode.” Nano Letters, Vol. 10 (4), 1276-1279 (2010).
Rim, S. B. and P. Peumans. “An analysis of light trapping configurations for thin-film solar cells based on shaped substrates," J. Appl. Phys. (accepted 2010).
Zhao S. and P. Peumans. “Simulations of carrier dynamics in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells,” (in preparation, 2010).
Gaynor, W., G. Burkhard, M. D. McGehee, and P. Peumans, “A High-Performance Composite Solution-Processed Indium Tin Oxide Replacement for Optoelectronic Devices,” (submitted, 2010).
Liu, C. Stoessel, L. Boman, C. Niu, J. Miller and P. Peumans, “High-speed toll-to-roll vacuum deposition of organic solar cells,” Appl. Phys. Lett. (submitted, 2010).
Zhao, S., S. B. Rim, and P. Peumans. “Field and temperature-dependent photocurrent generation in bilayer organic donor/acceptor solar cells,” Adv. Mater. (submitted, 2010).
Zhao, S. and P. Peumans. “An accurate microscopic model for the dark current and open-circuit voltage of organic solar cells,” Adv. Mater. (submitted, 2010).
Gaynor, W., J-Y. Lee, and P. Peumans. “All solution-processed polymer bulk-heterojunction solar cells on opaque substrates.” (Submitted, 2009).
Lee, J-Y., S. Connor, Y. Cui, and P. Peumans. “Semitransparent organic photovoltaic cells with laminated top electrode.” Advanced Materials (Submitted, 2009).
Agrawal, M. and P. Peumans. "Broadband optical absorption enhancement through coherent light trapping in thin-film photovoltaic cells." Optics Express Vol.16, No. 8, pp. 5385-5396, doi:10.1364/OE.16.005385 (2008).
Wu, J., H. A. Becerril, Z. Bao, Z. Liu, Y. Chen, and P. Peumans. "Organic solar cells with solution-processed graphene transparent electrodes." Applied Physics Letter Vol. 92, No. 26, pp. 263302, doi:10.1063/1.2924771 (2008).
M. Agrawal and P. Peumans, "Broadband optical absorption enhancement through coherent light trapping in thin-film photovoltaic cells," Optics Express 16, 5385-5396 (2008).
Liu, S. Zhao, S. B. Rim, M. Koenemann, P. Erk, and P. Peumans. "Control of electric field strength and orientation at the donor-acceptor interface in organic solar cells." Advanced Materials, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 1065-1070, doi:10.1002/adma.200702554 (2008).

Zhao, S. and P. Peumans. "Geminate recombination at organic semiconductor heterojunctions." (Submitted, 2008).
Rim, S. B., S. Zhao, S. R. Scully, M. D. McGehee and P. Peumans. "An effective light trapping configuration for thin-film solar cells." Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, 243501, doi:10.1063/1.2789677 (2007).

Updated June 2010