Comparative Indoor and Outdoor Degradation of Organic Photovoltaic Cells via Inter-laboratory Collaboration

We report on the degradation of organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells in both indoor and outdoor environments. Eight different research groups contributed state of the art OPV cells to be studied at Pomona College. Power conversion efficiency, fill factor, and IV curves were collected at regular intervals over six to eight months. Similarly prepared devices were measured indoors, outdoors, and after dark storage. Device architectures are compared. Cells kept indoors performed better than outdoors due to the lack of temperature and humidity extremes. Encapsulated cells performed better due to the minimal oxidation. Some devices showed steady aging but many failed catastrophically due to corrosion of electrodes not active device layers. Degradation of cells kept in dark storage was minimal over periods up to one year.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

• Publication date

  2015-06-14

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics, Engineering, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/polym8010001PMID 30979099PMCID 6432571
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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