Organic photovoltaics : mechanism, materials, and devices / [edited by] Sam-Shajing Sun, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword 1 -- Alan J. Heeger, Nobel Laureate, University of California at Santa Barbara -- Foreword 2 -- Aloysius F. Hepp and Sheila G. Bailey, Photovoltaic and Space Environments Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editors -- Contributors -- General Overviews -- The Story of Solar Cells -- J. Perlin -- Inorganic Photovoltaic Materials and Devices: Past, Present, and Future -- A.F. Hepp, S.G. Bailey, and R.P. Raffaelle -- Natural Organic Photosynthetic Solar Energy Transduction -- R.E. Blankenship -- Solid-State Organic Photovoltaics: A Review of Molecular and Polymeric Devices -- P.A. Lane and Z.H. Kafafi -- Mechanisms and Modeling -- Simulations of Optical Processes in Organic Photovoltaic Devices -- N-K. Persson and O. Inganäs --

Coulomb Forces in Excitonic Solar Cells -- B.A. Gregg -- Electronic Structure of Organic Photovoltaic Materials: Modeling of Exciton-Dissociation -- acesses J. Cornil, V. Lemaur, M.C. Steel, H. Dupin, A. Burquel, D. Beljonne, and J-L. Brédas -- Optimization of Organic Solar Cells in Both Space and Energy–Time Domains -- S-S. Sun and C.E. Bonner -- Materials and Devices -- Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells -- H. Hoppe and N.S. Sariciftci -- Organic Solar Cells Incorporating a p–i–n Junction and a p–n Homojunction -- M. Hiramoto -- Liquid-Crystal Approaches to Organic Photovoltaics -- B. Kippelen, S. Yoo, J.A. Haddock, B. Domercq, S. Barlow, B. Minch, W. Xia, S.R. Marder, and N.R. Armstrong -- Photovoltaic Cells Based on Nanoporous Titania Films Filled with Conjugated Polymers -- K.M. Coakley and M.D. McGehee -- Solar Cells Based on Cyanine and Polymethine Dyes -- H. Tian and F. Meng -- Semiconductor Quantum Dot Based Nanocomposite Solar Cells -- M.H. Wu, A. Ueda, and R. Mu -- Solar Cells Based on Composites of Donor Conjugated Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes -- E. Kymakis and G.A.J. Amaratunga -- Photovoltaic Devices Based on Polythiophene/C60 -- L.S. Roman Alternating Fluorene Copolymer–Fullerene Blend Solar Cells -- O. Inganäs, F. Zhang, X. Wang, A. Gadisa,

N-K. Persson, M. Svensson, E. Perzon, W. Mammo, and M.R. Andersson Solar Cells Based on Diblock Copolymers: A PPV Donor Block and a Fullerene Derivatized Acceptor Block -- R.A. Segalman, C. Brochon, and G. Hadziioannou Interface Electronic Structure and Organic Photovoltaic Devices -- Y. Gao -- The Influence of the Electrode Choice on the Performance of Organic Solar Cells A.B. Djurisˇic´ and C.Y. Kwong -- Conducting and Transparent Polymer Electrodes -- F. Zhang and O. Inganäs -- Progress in Optically Transparent Conducting Polymers -- V. Seshadri and G.A. Sotzing -- Optoelectronic Properties of Conjugated Polymer/Fullerene Binary Pairs with Variety of LUMO Level Differences S. Sensfuss and M. Al-Ibrahim -- Polymer–Fullerene Concentration Gradient Photovoltaic Devices by Thermally Controlled Interdiffusion -- M. Drees, R.M. Davis, and R. Heflin -- Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for Organic Photovoltaic Devices -- M.H-C. Jin and L. Dai -- Index.

Recently developed organic photovoltaics (OPVs) show distinct advantages over their inorganic counterparts due to their lighter weight, flexible shape, versatile materials synthesis and device fabrication schemes, and low cost in large-scale industrial production. Although many books currently exist on general concepts of PV and inorganic PV materials and devices, few are available that offer a comprehensive overview of recently fast developing organic and polymeric PV materials and devices. Organic Photovoltaics: Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices fills this gap. The book provides an international perspective on the latest research in this rapidly expanding field with contributions from top experts around the world. It presents a unified approach comprising three sections: General Overviews; Mechanisms and Modeling; and Materials and Devices. Discussions include sunlight capture, exciton diffusion and dissociation, interface properties, charge recombination and migration, and a variety of currently developing OPV materials/devices. The book also includes two forewords: one by Nobel Laureate Dr. Alan J. Heeger, and the other by Drs. Aloysius Hepp and Sheila Bailey of NASA Glenn Research Center.

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