Technical progresses and commercial pathway for printed organic photovoltaics

Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) based on semiconducting polymers has made strong advances over the past few years reaching record power efficiencies of 8.3%. The band-gap of such polymeric semiconductors define the single junction cell efficiency but also opens up the opportunity to produce solar cells in different colors which make OPV pre-destined for new growing markets, like building integrated photovoltaics.