Materials to enable new-generation photovoltaics and photodetectors at industrial scale
Organic and perovskite photodiodes, both emerging thin-film technologies, are expected to change as well as extend significantly the use of photovoltaics but also optical sensors.
The energy- and cost-efficient manufacturing on light-weight flexible substrates allows for OPV devices operating under low light conditions, targeting, particularly, IoT applications while single- and multi-junction Perovskite technology suitable for R2R processes is expected to increase the performance and availability of solar technology significantly. The possibility to tune the bandgap of organic semiconductors, including both electron-donor as well as acceptor materials, and Perovskite-based absorber phases allows to optimize the capturing of targeted parts of the electromagnetic spectrum ranging for the UV to IR while the use of scintillators enables X-ray detection.

