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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kumar, Manish
• Kumar, Sandeep

Titel

Liquid crystals in photovoltaics: a new generation of organic photovoltaics

Ist Teil von

• Polymer journal, 2017-01, Vol.49 (1), p.85-111

Ort / Verlag

Tokyo: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article presents an overview of the developments in the field of organic photovoltaics (PVs) with liquid crystals (LCs). A brief introduction to the PV and LC fields is given first, followed by application of various LCs in organic PVs. Details of LCs used in bilayer solar cells, bulk heterojunction solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells have been given. All the liquid crystalline materials used in PVs are structured and the efficiency of solar cells is tabulated. Finally, an outlook into the future of this newly emerging, fascinating and exciting field of self-organizing supramolecular LC PV research is provided.