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Visibly Transparent Polymer Solar Cells Produced by Solution Processing

Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, California NanoSystems Institute, and §Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (8), pp 7185–7190
DOI: 10.1021/nn3029327
Publication Date (Web): July 4, 2012
Copyright © 2012 American Chemical Society
*Address correspondence to iamzhurui@gmail.com (R.Z.), psw@cnsi.ucla.edu (P.S.W.), yangy@ucla.edu (Y.Y.).

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These authors contributed equally to the work.

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Visibly transparent photovoltaic devices can open photovoltaic applications in many areas, such as building-integrated photovoltaics or integrated photovoltaic chargers for portable electronics. We demonstrate high-performance, visibly transparent polymer solar cells fabricated via solution processing. The photoactive layer of these visibly transparent polymer solar cells harvests solar energy from the near-infrared region while being less sensitive to visible photons. The top transparent electrode employs a highly transparent silver nanowire–metal oxide composite conducting film, which is coated through mild solution processes. With this combination, we have achieved 4% power-conversion efficiency for solution-processed and visibly transparent polymer solar cells. The optimized devices have a maximum transparency of 66% at 550 nm.

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Received 21 May 2012
Date accepted 3 July 2012
Published online 4 July 2012
Published in print 28 August 2012
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