Photovoltaic cells and photodetectors made with semiconductor polymers: recent progress

Gang Yu; Gordana Srdanov; Hailiang Wang; Yong Cao; Alan J. Heeger

doi:10.1117/12.386366

19 May 2000 Photovoltaic cells and photodetectors made with semiconductor polymers: recent progress

Gang Yu, Gordana Srdanov, Hailiang Wang, Yong Cao, Alan J. Heeger

Proceedings Volume 3939, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.386366
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In this presentation, we discuss recent progress on polymer photovoltaic cells and polymer photodetectors. By improving the fill-factor of polymer photovoltaic cells, the energy conversion efficiency was improved significantly to over 4 percent. Such high efficiency polymer photovoltaic cells are promising for many applications including e-papers, e-books and smart-windows. Polymer photodetectors with similar device configuration show high photosensitivity, low dark current, large dynamic range, linear intensity dependence, low noise level and fast response time. These parameters are comparable to or even better than their inorganic counterparts. The advantages of low manufacturing cost, large detection area, and easy hybridization and integration with other electronic or optical components make them promising for a variety of applications including chemical/biomedical analysis, full-color digital image sensing and high energy radiation detection.

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Gang Yu, Gordana Srdanov, Hailiang Wang, Yong Cao, and Alan J. Heeger "Photovoltaic cells and photodetectors made with semiconductor polymers: recent progress", Proc. SPIE 3939, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices II, (19 May 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.386366

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