Contents
1 Basic Principles of Modern Organic Solar Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2 A Path to the Blended Junction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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3 Percolation Toward Lateral Junctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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4 OPV with a Crystalline Organic Pigment Active Layer Up
to 10 μm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Toshihiko Kaji
5 Polymer Solar Cells: Development of π-Conjugated Polymers
with Controlled Energetics and Structural Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Itaru Osaka
6 Charge Carrier Dynamics in Polymer Solar Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Hideo Ohkita
7 First-Principles Investigations of Electronically Excited States
in Organic Semiconductors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Takatoshi Fujita
8 Open-Circuit Voltage in Organic Solar Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Seiichiro Izawa
9 Parts-Per-Million-Level Doping Effects and Organic Solar
Cells Having Doping-Based Junctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
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10 Proposal for Future Organic Solar Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
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Correction to: Organic Solar Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C1
Masahiro Hiramoto and Seiichiro Izawa
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