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Organic Solar Cells

Energetic and Nanostructural Design

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Editors:
  1. Masahiro Hiramoto

    1. Department of Materials Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan

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  2. Seiichiro Izawa

    1. Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan

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  • Presents a clear description of essential ideas
  • Facilitates the reader’s understanding of how the essential ideas in the field have arisen
  • Provides a scientific foundation for future research

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Basic Principles of Modern Organic Solar Cells

    • Masahiro Hiramoto
    Pages 1-21

  3. A Path to the Blended Junction

    • Masahiro Hiramoto
    Pages 23-44

  4. Percolation Toward Lateral Junctions

    • Masahiro Hiramoto
    Pages 45-74

  5. OPV with a Crystalline Organic Pigment Active Layer Up to 10 μm

    • Toshihiko Kaji
    Pages 75-87

  6. Polymer Solar Cells: Development of π-Conjugated Polymers with Controlled Energetics and Structural Orders

    • Itaru Osaka
    Pages 89-121

  7. Charge Carrier Dynamics in Polymer Solar Cells

    • Hideo Ohkita
    Pages 123-154

  8. First-Principles Investigations of Electronically Excited States in Organic Semiconductors

    • Takatoshi Fujita
    Pages 155-193

  9. Open-Circuit Voltage in Organic Solar Cells

    • Seiichiro Izawa
    Pages 195-216

  10. Parts-Per-Million-Level Doping Effects and Organic Solar Cells Having Doping-Based Junctions

    • Masahiro Hiramoto
    Pages 217-253

  11. Proposal for Future Organic Solar Cells

    • Masahiro Hiramoto
    Pages 255-267

  12. Correction to: Organic Solar Cells

    • Masahiro Hiramoto, Seiichiro Izawa
    Pages C1-C2
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About this book

This book focuses on the essential scientific ideas and breakthroughs in the last three decades for organic solar cells that have realized practical applications. The motivation for publishing this book is to explain how those essential ideas have arisen and to provide a foundation for future progress by target readers—students, novices in the field, and scientists with expertise. The main topics covered in the book include the fundamental principles and history of organic solar cells, blended junction, nanostructure control, photocurrent generation, photovoltage generation, doping, practical organic solar cells, and possible ideas for the future. The editors enthusiastically anticipate the vigorous development of the field of organic solar cells by young scientists of the next generation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Materials Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan

    Masahiro Hiramoto

  • Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan

    Seiichiro Izawa

About the editors

Masahiro Hiramoto received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Osaka University in 1986. He started the research on organic semiconductors and organic solar cells in 1988 in Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He joined the Institute for Molecular Science in 2008 as a Professor. He has published over 140 papers. His research interests include the photoelectric properties of organic semiconductors and organic single crystals, especially doping effects and their application to organic solar cells. He is an inventor of the blended junction and tandem junction for organic solar cells. He won the Fellow Award from Japan Society of Applied Physics.


Seiichiro Izawa is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Molecular Science, Japan, since 2016. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2015 and worked at RIKEN in Japan and University of California, Santa Barbara, as a Postdoctoral Fellow from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. His research interests are effects of nanostructure and chemical structure on optoelectronic properties in organic semiconductors, doping mechanism and utilizing doping for organic electronic devices, especially for organic photovoltaics.

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