Taiwan’s Organic P-N Junction

Researchers from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) introduced yesterday a newly developed organic solar cell which has the potential to become a new low-cost, high-performance energy source. The organic solar cell — dubbed the Organic P-N Junction — is a sandwich structure containing two metal layers mounted on a plastic substrate, with each layer topped with nano structured plastic polymers serving as insulators. The Organic P-N Junction has a power conversion efficiency of 5.2%, the highest in the world to date in terms of organic solar cell power. The Organic P-N Junction, which is slightly larger than a business card, can be used by mobile phone or notebook PC users as a portable charger adding that it can also be used by campers or mountain climbers as a flexible energy source.

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