Organic Photovoltaics and Photodetectors: Materials, Devices and Applications
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: orgnaic photodetectors; organic solar cells
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Interests: organic solar cells
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Along with the rapid development of organic semiconducting materials, organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic photodetectors (OPDs) have attracted much attention and achieved great progress. Additional efforts in material selection, materials development, and investigation of device physics are required to further improve the performance of the devices. This Special Issue focuses on the materials and device physics for achieving high-performance OSCs, semi-transparent OSCs with potential applications, OPDs with adjusting spectral response range and high signal-to-noise ratios, etc. We call for papers reporting recent advances in the field of OSCs and OPDs, encompassing materials innovation, development of device structures, optimization of device manufacturing processes, investigations into the dynamic processes of excitons and charge carriers, exploration of device applications, etc. We also encourage the reviews exploring the future development trends and application potential of OSCs and OPDs.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue, but are not limited to, the following:
- New materials for efficient OSCs and OPDs;
- Interfacial engineering for improving the performance of OSCs and OPDs;
- Layer-by-layer OSCs or quasi-planner heterojunction OSCs;
- Colorful or high-performance semitransparent OSCs;
- Photomultiplication type OPDs with adjustable response range;
- Photodiode type OPDs with high signal-to-noise ratios;
- Potential applications of OSCs or OPDs.
Prof. Dr. Fujun Zhang
Dr. Xiaoling Ma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- organic semiconducting materials
- solar cells
- photodetectors
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