Integrated organic photovoltaic modules with a scalable voltage output
- 4 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 89 (23), 233516
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2402264
Abstract
Efficient organic photovoltaic modules and cells have been fabricated based on a blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and a soluble C70 derivative, [6,6]-phenyl C71 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM-70). Power conversion efficiency of P3HT/PCBM-70 cells is estimated at 4.1% for the AM1.5G condition from the spectra of external quantum efficiency. Integrated photovoltaic modules, in which N- individual P3HT/PCBM-70 cells (N=1–4) are connected in series, exhibit a short-circuit current ISC of 1.4±0.1mA and an open-circuit voltage VOC of N×0.621V with a maximum VOC of 2.48V for N=4 under simulated solar illumination (AM1.5G, 85mW∕cm2).This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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