#BRIGHT - Recent Breakthroughs in Organic Photovoltaics
“Organics strike back”: After a long halt between 2012 and 2015 on efficiencies around 12%, organic solar cells (OSC) have now transitioned to a stage where efficiencies over 18% are being regularly reported. The emergence of a family of materials - the non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) with small energetic offsets with specific electron donors - is mainly responsible for the remarkable improvement. With the significant milestone of 20% now in sight and an optimistic value of 25% predicted, understanding interlayer, morphology, charge dynamics and the current barriers in these systems is now of great importance.
This symposium endeavours to gather leading experts from around the world aiming at critical discussions on hot topics related organic solar cells, in particular those based on NFAs.
- Progress in efficiency
- Voltage loss mechanisms in NFA solar cells
- New thermodynamic efficiency limits
- Interplay between excitons, CT states and free charges in the low offset systems.
- Charge generation in non-fullerene solar cells
- Charge transport and recombination
- Interplay between nano-morphology and charge dynamics
- Doping engineering in OSCs
- Role of energetic disorder and tail states
- Green solvent processed OSCs
Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) - Saudi Arabia, SA
Institute of Physics and Astronomy University of Potsdam, DE, DE
OE Department, oninn - Centro de inovações
Nanopto, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona
Department of Chemistry, University of Cyprus
Universität Bayreuth, Physikalisches Institut, Herzig Group – Dynamik
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) - Saudi Arabia
Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) & Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), FAU, Germany
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) - Saudi Arabia
University of California Santa Barbara
Department of Physics, Swansea University, UK
IMO-IMOMEC, Universiteit Hasselt
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers
Department of Chemistry, Korea University