Development of highly integrated Organic Photovoltaic Module
Sunlight as a clean and inexhaustible source of energy provides an effective way in diminishing the green house effect. Solar Cells or Photovoltaic (PV) serves as a proven technology known for its ability in capturing and reusing sunlight to be used as source of energy, but the cost of generating power with the current PV technology is very high prohibiting the wide spread use of PVs as a result of this. Extensive amount of time has been already gone for research and development of Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) in a promise to provide a much improved sunlight conversion rate. During this research it was discovered that C60 Fullerene offers a very good organic semi-conductivity and it can be applied to the OPV module as an acceptor. The Fullerene was supplied for module production by Frontier Carbon Corporation (FCC) a Mitsubishi Corporation subsidiary and the world’s largest producer of Fullerene. Read more
