STEM
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Quinn Qiao and a research team from the College of Engineering and Computer Science recently published two papers in Advanced Materials, collaborations with Peking University and other universities in Europe. Both papers focus on the organic solar cell (OSC), which is a photovoltaic device that converts solar energy to electrical energy.
Professor Quinn Qiao and his research team.
The first paper, “Quasi-Homojunction Organic Nonfullerene Photovoltaics Featuring Fundamentals Distinct from Bulk Heterojunction,” discusses the unconventional organic solar cell’s structure with more intrinsic charge generation and less charge recombination. The second paper, “Simultaneously Enhancing Exciton/Charge Transport in Organic Solar Cells by an Organoboron Additive,” provides a facile strategy of morphology…