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Polymer hybrid photovoltaics for inexpensive electricity generation, final technical report, 1 September 2001 - 30 April 2006, S.A. Carter, University of California-Santa Cruz

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The project goal is to understand the operating mechanisms underlying the performance of polymer hybrid photovoltaics to enable the development of a photovoltaic with a maximum power conversion efficiency over cost ratio that is significantly greater than current PV technologies. Plastic or polymer-based photovoltaics can have significant cost advantages over conventional technologies in that they are compatible with liquid-based plastic processing and can be assembled onto plastic under atmospheric conditions (ambient temperature and pressure) using standard printing technologies, such as reel-to-reel and screen printing. Moreover, polymer-based PVs are lightweight, flexible, and largely unbreakable, which make shipping, installation, and maintenance simpler. Furthermore, a numerical simulation program was developed (in collaboration with IBM) to fully simulate the performance of multicomponent polymer photovoltaic devices, and a manufacturing method was developed (in collaboration with Add-vision) to inexpensively manufacture larger-area devices

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Polymer hybrid photovoltaics for inexpensive electricity generation

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S.A. Carter, University of California-Santa Cruz

NREL/SR, 520-40044

final technical report, 1 September 2001 - 30 April 2006