Flexible organic and hybrid solar cells utilising new photoactive materials

该项目对可持续社会发展可再生能源和能源材料具有战略重要性，这与EPSRC和帝国战略研究主题非常吻合。该项目将涉及使用新开发的光活性材料开发高效率和高稳定性的柔性光伏设备。这样的发展将基于对光伏材料和器件的主要损耗机制的基本理解，特别侧重于光生电荷载流子的产生、捕获和重组所涉及的光物理过程。我们将研究这些过程如何受到体状和平面异质结光伏器件中形成的不同有机/有机和有机/无机界面的影响。

The project has a strategic importance for Sustainable Society developing Renewable energy and materials for energy, which fits well with EPSRC and Imperial strategic research themes. The project will involve developing high efficiency and high stability flexible PV devices using newly developed photoactive materials. Such development will be based on fundamental understanding of the main loss mechanisms of PV materials and devices, with a particular focus on photophysical processes involved in the generation, trapping, and recombination of photogenerated charge carriers. We will investigate how these processes are influenced by different organic/organic and organic/inorganic interfaces formed in bulk and planar heterojunctions PV devices.