Volatile Organic Compounds are Ghosts for Organic Solar Cells

All our efforts to demonstrate a multifunctional device – photovoltaic gas sensor (i.e. solar cell which show photovoltaic action depending on the gas / volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the surrounding atmosphere) yielded negative results. Photovoltaic performance of the organic solar cells under...

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Main Authors: Prakash R. Somani, Savita P. Somani, Masayoshi Umeno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sumy State University 2014-11-01
Series:Журнал нано- та електронної фізики
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Online Access:http://jnep.sumdu.edu.ua/download/numbers/2014/4/articles/jnep_2014_V6_04010.pdf
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description All our efforts to demonstrate a multifunctional device – photovoltaic gas sensor (i.e. solar cell which show photovoltaic action depending on the gas / volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the surrounding atmosphere) yielded negative results. Photovoltaic performance of the organic solar cells under study degraded – almost permanently by exposing them to volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Although, the proposed multifunctional device could not be demonstrated; Present investigations yielded very important result that organic solar cells have problems not only with oxygen and humidity (known facts) but also with many VOCs and hazardous gases – making lamination / encapsulation step mandatory for their practical utilization.
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spelling doaj-art-d1dbded5638642e5a21569c8dc3a36f42025-08-20T03:24:02ZengSumy State UniversityЖурнал нано- та електронної фізики2077-67722014-11-016404010-104010-2Volatile Organic Compounds are Ghosts for Organic Solar CellsPrakash R. Somani0Savita P. Somani1Masayoshi Umeno2Applied Science Innovations Pvt. Ltd., Pune – 411041 Maharashtra, IndiaApplied Science Innovations Pvt. Ltd., Pune – 411041 Maharashtra, IndiaChubu University, Kasugai-shi, Aichi-Ken, JapanAll our efforts to demonstrate a multifunctional device – photovoltaic gas sensor (i.e. solar cell which show photovoltaic action depending on the gas / volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the surrounding atmosphere) yielded negative results. Photovoltaic performance of the organic solar cells under study degraded – almost permanently by exposing them to volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Although, the proposed multifunctional device could not be demonstrated; Present investigations yielded very important result that organic solar cells have problems not only with oxygen and humidity (known facts) but also with many VOCs and hazardous gases – making lamination / encapsulation step mandatory for their practical utilization.http://jnep.sumdu.edu.ua/download/numbers/2014/4/articles/jnep_2014_V6_04010.pdfOrganic solar cellLaminationVolatile organic compounds
spellingShingle Prakash R. Somani
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Volatile Organic Compounds are Ghosts for Organic Solar Cells
Журнал нано- та електронної фізики
Organic solar cell
Lamination
Volatile organic compounds
title Volatile Organic Compounds are Ghosts for Organic Solar Cells
title_full Volatile Organic Compounds are Ghosts for Organic Solar Cells
title_fullStr Volatile Organic Compounds are Ghosts for Organic Solar Cells
title_full_unstemmed Volatile Organic Compounds are Ghosts for Organic Solar Cells
title_short Volatile Organic Compounds are Ghosts for Organic Solar Cells
title_sort volatile organic compounds are ghosts for organic solar cells
topic Organic solar cell
Lamination
Volatile organic compounds
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