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Overview and Highlights of WOLEDs and Organic Solar Cells: From Research to Applications

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WOLEDs and Organic Photovoltaics

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Solid-state organic devices are at the vanguard of new generation of electronic components owing to their promise to be easily manufactured onto flexible substrates that potentially reduce the mass production cost for large modules. With the great efforts on improving the power efficiency that meets the realistic requirements for commercial applications, white organic light-emitting devices (WOLEDs) and organic solar cells have attracted much attention over the past two decades and are targeted as the effective ways for reducing the energy consumption and developing renewable energy in the world. Because of their great potentials to generate tremendous savings in both cost and energy usage, WOLEDs are considered as new generations of solid-state lighting sources to replace the incandescent bulbs, while organic solar cells are the most promising candidates to complement the inorganic silicon solar cells for electricity generation. Here, we will provide a survey on the recent developments of WOLEDs and organic solar cells and their current status in these fields. Resistances and hampers to the widespread acceptances of these two areas of developments are also discussed.

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This work has been supported by the University Grants Committee Areas of Excellence Scheme (AoE/P-03/08) and the Strategic Research Theme on Molecular Materials of The University of Hong Kong.

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Chan, M.MY., Tao, CH., Yam, V.WW. (2010). Overview and Highlights of WOLEDs and Organic Solar Cells: From Research to Applications. In: Yam, V. (eds) WOLEDs and Organic Photovoltaics. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14935-1_1

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