Terms and abbreviations

General OPV

 OPV – Organic photovoltaic[1]

 PSC – Polymer solar cell[2]
 BHJ – bulk heterojunction[3] – active layer comprised of mixed donor and acceptor
material
 HBL - Hole blocking layer[4]
 EBL - Electron blocking layer[4]
 HTL – Hole transport layer[4]
 ETL – Electron transport layer[4]
 FF - Fill factor[5][6]
 PCE - Power conversion efficiency[5][7]
 VOC - Open circuit voltage[5][8]
 ISC - Short circuit current[5]
 MPP – Maximum power point[5]
 Rsh – shunt resistance[9]
 Rs – Series resistance
 IV curve – current voltage curve[5][10]
 Eg – bandgap[11][12]
 HOMO – Highest occupied molecular orbital [13]
 LUMO – Lowest unoccupied molecular orbital [13]
 EQE - External quantum efficiency[14][15]
 QE - Quantum efficiency[14][15]
 IQE - Internal quantum efficiency[14][15]
 e - Electron
 h - Hole
 PTSC - Polymer tandem solar cell
 CiGS - Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells[16] - second generation solar cell
 CdTe - Cadmium telluride photovoltaics[17] - second generation solar cell

Characterization

 AFM - Atomic force microscope[18]

 SEM – Scanning electron microscope[19]
 UV-vis - Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy[20][21]
 NMR - Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy[22][23]
 LBIC - Light beam induced current[24]
 SEC - Size exclusion chromatography[25][26]
 IPCE - Incident photon-to-current efficiency[14][15]
 CV - Cyclic voltammetry[27][28]
 IR - Infrared spectroscopy[29]
 XPS - X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy[30]
 TOF-SIMS - Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry [31]

Materials

 P3HT - Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl)[32] - polymer used in the active layer

 PEDOT:PSS - Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Polystyrene sulfonate [33] - used as a
transparent, conductive polymer
 ZnO – Zinc oxide[34] – transparent conductive oxide
 ITO - Indium tin oxide[35] – transparent conductive oxide
 Flextrode – substrate made and used by DTU Energy Conversion and storage as an
ITO replacement[36]
 C60 - Buckminsterfullerene[37]
 PCBM - Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester[38]
 PET – Polyethylene terephthalate[39] - Used as polymer carrier foil
 Donor unit - low band gap polymers are typically consisting of donor and acceptor units
 Acceptor unit - low band gap polymers are typically consisting of donor and acceptor
units
 Donor material - Material used in the BHJ layer e.g. P3HT
 Acceptor material - Material used in the BHJ layer e.g. PCBM
 PT - Polythiophene[40] - Polymer used in the active layer
 Mn - Number average molecular weight [41]
 MW - Weight average molecular weight[41]
 DARP - Direct arylation polymerization
 P3MOCT - Poly[3-(2-methyl-2-hexyl)-oxycarbonylbithiophene] - Polymer used in the
active layer
 V2O5 - Vanadium(V) oxide[42] - Used as a hole transport layer
 Degradation and stability

 ISOS – International summit on organic photovoltaic stability [43]

 R.H. - Relative humidity[44]
 ISOS-D - ISOS-Dark[43]
 ISOS-O - ISOS-Outdoor[43]
 ISOS-L - ISOS-Light[43]
 ISOS-T - ISOS-Thermal[43]
 ISOS-LT - ISOS-Light thermal[43]

Fabrication

 R2R - Roll to roll

Life cycle analysis

 LCA - Life cycle analysis[45][46]

 EPBT - Energy pay back time[45] - how long it takes the solar cell to pay back the energy
which was put into the production of it.
 ERF - Energy return factor[45] - How many times the energy put into production can be
paid back.