{"id":5700,"date":"2022-12-25T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T00:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:54:23","slug":"what-are-organic-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-organic-solar-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Organic Solar Cells?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What are Organic Solar Cells?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An organic solar cell consisting of a combination of an <strong>organic polymer and PCBM (an organic semiconductor) <\/strong>developed on steel substrates can potentially convert a steel roof into an energy-producing device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The devices consist of a blend of organic polymer PTB7 as a donor and PCBM as an acceptor.<\/li>\n<li>The devices were fabricated on opaque steel substrates with a<strong> MoO3\/Au\/MoO3top electrode.<\/strong> These electrodes offer higher optical transmission as compared to only metallic electrodes.<\/li>\n<li>The devices with multilayer electrodes showed a clear improvement in the photovoltaic performance by 1.5 times, as compared with those obtained with single-layer top metal electrodes of gold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is the DST-RCUK APEX project?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a jointly developed programme of the <strong>Department of Science and Technology (Under the ministry of Science and Technology)<\/strong> and the Research Councils United Kingdom (RCUK) focussing on reducing energy demand in the built environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the difference between organic and inorganic solar cells?<\/h3>\n<p>The major difference between silicon solar cells and organic solar cells is the semiconducting material used. Silicon solar cells use crystalline silicon, while organic cells use carbon-based organic compounds applied in a thin layer to a synthetic backing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1886244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Organic solar cells developed on steel substrates can convert a steel roof into an energy-producing device<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organic solar cell is blend of organic polymer &#038; PCBM to convert steel roof to energy-producing device<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}