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AKE: Arbeitskreis Energie

AKE 1: Photovoltaics

AKE 1.4: Talk

Monday, March 16, 2015, 10:45–11:00, A 151

Recent progress in organic photovoltaics — •Johannes Widmer, Christian Koerner, and Karl Leo — IAPP (Institut für Angewandte Photophysik), TU Dresden, Germany

Organic solar cells are today manufactured as flexible, light weight “solar films”. These modules can be designed in various colors, and they are optionally available as semi-transparent foils. These properties illustrate some of the advantages which organic photovoltaics have over their established inorganic counterparts. And though absolute efficiencies of organic photovoltaics are still below those of silicon solar cells, they have reached a level where their unique characteristics start to make them interesting for commercial applications.

In this contribution, we give a compact overview over the scientific and technological specifics of organic photovoltaics. We outline prevailing topics and challenges in research and development, and discuss promising application scenarios. Thereby we illustrate, why organic solar cells might soon be found in places where today we do not think about photovoltaics yet.