Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies

Providing complementary viewpoints from academia as well as technology companies, this book covers the three most important aspects of successful device design: materials, device physics, and manufacturing technologies. It also offers an insight into commercialization concerns, such as packaging technologies, system integration, reel-to-reel large scale manufacturing issues and production costs. With an introduction by Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger.

Providing complementary viewpoints from technological companies as well as academia, this reference covers the three most important aspects of successful device design: materials, device physics, and manufacturing technologies. In so doing, it closes the gap between basic academic material and device research and the technologies relevant for product development, providing an insight into commercialization concerns, such as packaging technologies, system integration, reel-to-reel large scale manufacturing issues and production costs. With a contribution by Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger.

Christoph J. Brabec  is the CTO of Konarka Technologies Inc. After completing his PhD, he joined Prof Alan Heeger's group at the University of Santa Barbara, USA, for a sabbatical in 1996, and continued to work on the opto-electronic properties of organic semiconductors as assistant professor at the University of Linz with Prof Serdar Sariciftci. In 1998, he became senior scientist of a Christian Doppler Laboratory on organic solar cells, which he left in 2001 to join siemens Corporate technology as a project leader for organic semiconductor devices. He qualified as a lecturer at the Hohannes Kepler University of Linz in 2003, and has more than 100 papers and over 30 patents to his name.

Vladimir Dyakonov is full professor experimental physics at the University of Wurzburg, Germany, and scientific director of the Bavarian Centre of Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern) in Wurzburg. He obtained his degree in physics from the University of Saint Petersburg, his PhD from the A.F. Loffe-Institute in Russia and his lecturing qualification from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as post-doctoral fellow at the universities of Antwerp, Belgium, and Linz, Austria. Professor Dyakonov's research is focused on semiconductor spectroscopy and organic optoelectro0nics and photovoltaics.

Ullrich Scherf holds the chair for macromolecular chemistry at Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany. He studied chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, obtaining his PhD in 1988 and subsequently spend one year at the Institute for Animal Physiology of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. He joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz in 1990 and competed his lecturing qualification from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz in 1996, subsequently following a call to the University of Potsdam as a professor for polymer chemistry four years later. Professor Scherf has published over 450 papers and is a recipient of the Meyer-Struckmann Research Award.