Organic Solar Cell

The research for an organic solar cell has started from the past 3 decades, but especially in the last 10 years, all looked towards this cell because of the enormous increase in power consumption. This cell has attracted economic and scientific interests by the increase inefficiencies of power conversion and this got succeed with the usage of new materials, developed material engineering, and advanced device structures. Nowadays, with the help of many device concepts, we can increase efficiencies more than 3% of solar power converters. The field of OSCs has developed from the concepts of radiation emitting diodes based on similar technologies. OSCs have drawn attention in society due to its unique characteristics like lightweight in nature, flexibleness, effective cost fabrication and also improvements made in the energy conversion efficiency. But still, these improvements did not increase the efficiencies of organic solar cells more than that of inorganic solar cells. If we can increase the working-efficiency of the organic solar cell to half of the working-efficiency of the inorganic cell then automatically the production cost will be reduced. This take will give a rough overview of the history of solar cells, its working and also about its structure. The comparison of OSCs and its applications, current situation, environmental impacts will be described.