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Imec Achieves Record 8.4 Percent Conversion Efficiency in Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cells

Innovations in materials, structure support breakthrough achievement in organic solar cells

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

In a recent Nature Communications, imec presents the development of fullerene-free organic photovoltaic (OPV) multilayer stacks achieving a record conversion efficiency of 8.4%. This achievement is an important step to bring organic photovoltaic cells to a higher level in the competitive thin-film photovoltaics marketplace. Organic solar cells are an interesting thin-film photovoltaic technology due to their compatibility with flexible substrates and tunable absorption window. Although the po...

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