ADAMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL, CHEMICAL AND
MATERIAL ENGINEERING
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
PROGRAM
Special topics presentation1 on Organic Solar Cell
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Rahel Abera UGR/17560/11

Submitted to: Mr.Yeshitila

 01 Introduction

c ontents
02 How it works

03 Advantages and
limits

04 Application

05 Conclusion
 01 Introduction
 Through the ages mankind neede more and more energy.
Oil, gas and coal will not last forever and it takes a number of years until new
fossil fuels are formed.
 The earth receives 174,000(TW) of incoming solar radiation at the upper
atmosphere, so asa a solution the sun became an important source of renewable
energy.

Classic solar panel

Motivation
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Why Organic solar cell?

 Organic photovoltaic(OPV) solar cells

aim to provide an earth-abundant
and low-energy production
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 Definition
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• An organic solar cell device or organic photovoltaic

cell(OPVC) is a class of solar cell that uses conductive
organic polymers or small organic molecules for light
absorption and charge transport.
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Processes occuring
in an organic solar
cell

Charge Migration
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Organic potovoltaic solar
cells

Bilayer organic
cell
Single layer
organic cell

These cells are made by sandwiching

a layer of organic electronic materials
between two metallic conductors,
typically a layer of indium tin
oxide(ITO) and a layer of metal such
as Aluminum, Magnesium or Calcium. Bulk
heterojunction

A polymer solar cell which consists

of donor and acceptor materials
intermixed throughout the device. .
 03 Advantages and limit

Organic pv
Inorganic pv

Lifetime 10 000h 10 years

Yield 5% to 11% 11% 15% 25%
Cost Low hight
Transparency Transparent VS opaque
Integration Easy Not easy
Flexibility Flexibl Not flexible
03 Advantages and limit

Advantages Disadvantages
-Flexibility(roll to roll production) -Low efficiency(only 5% efficiency
-Low cost and light wight compared to the 15% of silicon
-Ease of integration cells)

OPV

-Ecological and economic benefits -Low liftime<10 000h

-Semitransparent -Low yield

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 04 Applications
-Personal mobile
phone charger

-Clothes with
embedded cells.

-BIV(buiding
integrated
photovoltaics).
05 Conclusion

-Organic photovoltaic
energy have the -New generation of
potential to be part of microelectronics(elec
the world’s solution to tronics everywhere)
the future of energy
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Perspectives
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The organic solar energy research is

developing:
Replace fullerenes in bulk heterojunction with
liquid crystal molecules in order to get bulk-
ordered separated structures of p and n to
obtain architecture

The key to future improvements in this

field lies in better understanding the
materials involved and their structures.
 References

[1]Askari Mohammad Bagher. Comparsion of Organic Solar cell and

Inorganic solar cells. International Journal of Renewable and Sustainable

Energy.

[2]Pulfery, L.D. (1978). Photovoltaic Power Generation