With the rise of the solar power century, photovoltaic applications and installations will go beyond the traditional green field power plants and enter any aspect of daily life. Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) demonstrate certified cell efficiencies of over 17% and are expected to contribute to versatile applications powered by solar energy, for instance, applications rely on flexibility, transparency, color management, or integrability. In this work, the progress of OPV technology is briefly reviewed and the material strategies to accelerate OPV technology toward a GW era are analyzed. In addition to the exciting efficiency values achieved for small area devices, there are many important criteria deciding the success of OPV technology. By taking into consideration the synthetic complexity of OPV materials and the operational stability of OPV devices, the industrial figure of merit (i‐FoM) is proposed as a fast and reliable method to verify the true potential of a novel material. Furthermore, “soft” key performance indicators are introduced, such as toxicity, flexibility, transparency, processing, which require different development strategies to reflect the potential of OPV technology for specific applications.

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加速OPV技术迈向GW技术的重大战略

随着太阳能发电世纪的兴起，光伏应用和安装将超越传统的绿色田间电厂，并进入日常生活的任何方面。有机光伏（OPV）的认证电池效率超过17％，并有望促进以太阳能为动力的多功能应用，例如，依赖于灵活性，透明性，色彩管理或可集成性的应用。在这项工作中，简要回顾了OPV技术的进展，并分析了加速OPV技术迈向GW时代的实质性策略。除了小面积设备获得的令人兴奋的效率值之外，还有许多重要的标准决定OPV技术的成功。考虑到OPV材料的综合复杂性和OPV器件的操作稳定性，提出了工业品质因数（i-FoM）作为一种快速可靠的方法来验证新型材料的真实潜力。此外，引入了“软”关键性能指标，例如毒性，灵活性，透明性，加工性，这些指标需要不同的开发策略来反映OPV技术在特定应用中的潜力。