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Scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells
Why, despite considerable R&D efforts and significant translational investment over the past 20 years, has the technology of solution-processed thin film solar cells not become a commercial reality? The manufacturing cost-to-power conversion efficiency ratio seems persuasive, as do the energy pa...
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description | Why, despite considerable R&D efforts and significant translational investment over the past 20 years, has the technology of solution-processed thin film solar cells not become a commercial reality? The manufacturing cost-to-power conversion efficiency ratio seems persuasive, as do the energy payback and embodied energy metrics. As new perovskite-based semiconductors achieve impressive efficiencies and organic semiconductors enjoy a resurgence, the lab-to-manufacturing translation and scaling questions require urgent attention. This comment addresses the challenges in solution processable photovoltaic technologies faced by scientists and engineers in addressing these questions, and highlights the concept of thick junctions as a promising solution. |
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spelling | pubmed-62881072018-12-12 Scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells Meredith, Paul Armin, Ardalan Nat Commun Comment Why, despite considerable R&D efforts and significant translational investment over the past 20 years, has the technology of solution-processed thin film solar cells not become a commercial reality? The manufacturing cost-to-power conversion efficiency ratio seems persuasive, as do the energy payback and embodied energy metrics. As new perovskite-based semiconductors achieve impressive efficiencies and organic semiconductors enjoy a resurgence, the lab-to-manufacturing translation and scaling questions require urgent attention. This comment addresses the challenges in solution processable photovoltaic technologies faced by scientists and engineers in addressing these questions, and highlights the concept of thick junctions as a promising solution. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6288107/ /pubmed/30532028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05514-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Comment Meredith, Paul Armin, Ardalan Scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells |
title | Scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells |
title_full | Scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells |
title_fullStr | Scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells |
title_short | Scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells |
title_sort | scaling of next generation solution processed organic and perovskite solar cells |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288107/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30532028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05514-9 |
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