Systems and methods for organic semiconductor devices with sputtered contact layers are provided. In one embodiment, an organic semiconductor device comprises: a first contact layer comprising a first sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; an electron transport layer interfacing with the first contact layer; a second contact layer comprising a second sputter-deposited transparent conducting oxide; a hole transport layer interfacing with the second contact layer; and an organic semiconductor active layer having a first side facing the electron transport layer and an opposing second side facing the hole transport layer; wherein either the electron transport layer or the hole transport layer comprises a buffering transport layer.

A perovskite material bypass diode and a manufacturing method therefor, a perovskite solar cell module and a manufacturing method therefor, and a photovoltaic module are disclosed by the present application, which relate to the technical field of photovoltaics, the difficulty of manufacturing the perovskite material bypass diode is reduced. The method for manufacturing the perovskite material bypass diode includes: providing a layer of a perovskite material layer, processing the perovskite material layer to form a P-type perovskite material region and an N-type perovskite material region, so that a perovskite material bypass diode is formed. The perovskite material bypass diode and the manufacturing method therefor, the perovskite solar cell module and the manufacturing method therefor, and the photovoltaic module provided by the present application are used to manufacture the photovoltaic module.

A photovoltaic element including a number n of cells arranged on a substrate, from a first cell to an n-th cell and at least one busbar connected to the first cell and/or the n-th cell by an electrically conductive contacting. The cells each have a bottom electrode, a top electrode and a layer system including at least one photoactive layer. The layer system is arranged between the bottom electrode and the top electrode, and the cells are interconnected in series among one another. The electrically conductive contacting is formed by via points arranged in each case at specific distances A from one another in a longitudinal direction of the at least one busbar. No electrically conductive contacting is formed between the top electrode and the at least one busbar in regions between individual via points.

A photovoltaic cell of the present disclosure includes a substrate, a plurality of conductive sheets mutually intervening disposed on the substrate and forming a first matrix arrangement, and a plurality of photovoltaic units mutually intervening disposed on the conductive sheets and forming a second matrix arrangement different from the first matrix arrangement. Moreover, any two adjacent rows of the second matrix arrangement of the photovoltaic units are separated from each other. In each row of the photovoltaic units, an electrical connection of any two adjacent photovoltaic units is established by being connected to one of the conductive sheets. Accordingly, the structure of the photovoltaic cell of the present disclosure can be massively manufactured.

Techniques for integrating photovoltaics into wearables, such as eyewear, are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a lens for photovoltaic eyewear includes: forming a semitransparent photovoltaic film on at least a portion of a viewable area of the lens, wherein the semitransparent photovoltaic film includes an inorganic absorber material having a band gap of from about 1.4 eV to about 2.2 eV, and ranges therebetween. The semitransparent photovoltaic film can be configured to block greater than about 99.9% UVA, UVB, and UVC light rays, and from about 95% to about 99%, and ranges therebetween, of HEV light rays from passing therethrough. Photovoltaic eyewear formed by the present techniques is also provided.

A transparent electrode includes a conductive polymer layer, and plural carbon fibers having a diameter larger than the thickness of the conductive polymer layer, in which the carbon fibers are partially embedded in the conductive polymer layer. An organic electronic device includes the transparent electrode.

The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of an organic solar cell module and an organic solar cell module, and more particularly, to an organic solar cell module and a manufacturing method thereof, in which lower electrodes are spaced and etched in a staggered pattern and upper electrodes are coated to correspond to the lower electrodes to reduce a photoactive area of a sub cell and arrange more sub cells than sub cells in the related art in a predetermined area. Further, the present invention relates to an organic solar cell module and a manufacturing method thereof, which can reduce the installation cost and the manufacturing cost by coating a buffer layer and a photoactive layer on the lower electrode etched in the staggered pattern using a slot die coating apparatus in the related art.

The present application relates to an organic solar cell including: a first electrode; a second electrode which is disposed to face the first electrode; and an organic material layer having one or more layers which includes a photoactive layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which one or more layers of the organic material layer include two or more regions having different thicknesses.

The present invention relates to a serial module of organic solar cells and the method for manufacturing the same. The structure comprises a transparent conductive layer composed by a plurality of conductive blocks, an active layer having notches on the periphery, and a metal layer composed by a plurality of metal blocks. The active layer according to the present invention is a complete layer except the notches on the periphery for exposing a portion of the transparent conductive layer. The metal blocks can contact the conductive blocks of adjacent organic solar cell via the exposure areas and thus connecting the organic solar cells in series. The present invention can improves the power generating efficiency of organic solar cells in a limited space, which is beneficial to the development of promotion of future organic solar cells.

An organic thin film solar cell module A1 includes a transparent base substrate 41, a transparent first conductive layer 1 disposed on the base substrate 41, a second conductive layer 2, and a photoelectric conversion layer 3 formed of an organic thin film and interposed between the first conductive layer 1 and the second conductive layer 2. The second conductive layer 2 is thicker than the photoelectric conversion layer 3. The arrangements prevent occurrence of damage.