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Design Of Possible Organic Photovoltaic Compounds And Their Initial Computational Assessment, Albert Ochoa Castillo, Joshua Smith

IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Cal Poly Humboldt

The excessive use of fossil fuels has surged the need for alternative energy sources, such as solar energy. Organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells can potentially be an alternative to silicon solar cells. OPV compounds are carbon-based and use organic electronics as a semiconductor to produce electricity from the sun. There is a large interest in OPV cells because they are strong absorbers and come at a low cost of synthesis. Herein, possible OPV compounds were designed, and theoretical computations were done to assess their efficiency. Density Functional Theory was used to calculate the HOMO-LUMO gap of the compounds designed. Semiconductors such …