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    The document discusses the working principles of organic photovoltaic cells, including how they absorb photons to create excitons, use charge separation at the donor-acceptor interface, and transport charges through active materials like polymers and fullerenes. It also covers concepts like indirect and direct bandgaps, the Shockley-Queisser limit on efficiency, using a bulk hetero-junction design to separate charges, and how an internal electrical field is generated at the donor-acceptor interface.

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    The document discusses the working principles of organic photovoltaic cells, including how they absorb photons to create excitons, use charge separation at the donor-acceptor interface, and transport charges through active materials like polymers and fullerenes. It also covers concepts like indirect and direct bandgaps, the Shockley-Queisser limit on efficiency, using a bulk hetero-junction design to separate charges, and how an internal electrical field is generated at the donor-acceptor interface.

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    Week 2 Lecture 1

    OPV working principles


    Mikkel Jrgensen
    Active material
    Donor material (polymer)
    Acceptor (fullerene)
    Working principles
    Absorption of photon
    Creation of exciton
    Exiton diffusion
    Charge separation
    Charge transport
    Active material
    Donor material (polymer)
    Acceptor (fullerene)
    Indirect band gap material
    Silicon
    Direct bandgap material
    Thin film inorganic
    Thin film organic
    Low band gap material
    Limits voltage
    Efficiency limit
    ShockleyQueisser limit
    Silicon 33%

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    Infinite junctions: 86%


    Exciton
    Electron-hole pair
    Limited lifetime
    10-20 nm
    Bulk hetero junction
    Microphase separated material
    Bulk hetero junction
    Microphase separated material
    Bi-layer geometry
    Less effective
    Internal electrical field
    Two different materials
    Organic Solar Cells
    - Theory and Practice
    Producers:
    Instructors:
    Eva Bundgaard
    Morten V. Madsen
    Eva Bundgaard
    Mikkel Jrgensen
    Frederik C. Krebs

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