Nanostructured organic and hybrid solar cells

Abstract

This Progress Report highlights recent developments in nanostructured organic and hybrid solar cells. The authors discuss novel approaches to control the film morphology in fully organic solar cells and the design of nanostructured hybrid solar cells. The motivation and recent results concerning fabrication and effects on device physics are emphasized. The aim of this review is not to give a summary of all recent results in organic and hybrid solar cells, but rather to focus on the fabrication, device physics, and light trapping properties of nanostructured organic and hybrid devices. Recent progress in nanostructured organic and hybrid solar cells is discussed in this report. Ordered nanostructures allow systematic analysis of physical working principles such as charge carrier separation, transport and recombination in excitonic solar cells. Besides, light trapping is possible. In this progress report we describe new concepts, fabrication techniques and device physics of this new generation solar cells. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.