{"id":239594,"date":"2026-06-25T02:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/how-longer-exciton-lifetimes-could-ease-efficiency-trade-off-in-organic-solar-cells"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:25:34","slug":"how-longer-exciton-lifetimes-could-ease-efficiency-trade-off-in-organic-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/how-longer-exciton-lifetimes-could-ease-efficiency-trade-off-in-organic-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"How longer exciton lifetimes could ease efficiency trade-off in organic solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-longer-exciton-lifetimes-could-ease-efficiency-trade-off-in-organic-solar-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the efficiency of organic solar cells has now risen to more than 20%, there are physical limits that make it difficult to further increase their performance. A research team from Link\u00f6ping University in Sweden, the University of Potsdam, the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin and other collaborators has now demonstrated which physical processes limit a key parameter in the performance of organic solar cells. This opens up the possibility of overcoming the long-standing efficiency limits of organic solar cells.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-026-01946-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Photonics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the efficiency of organic solar cells has now risen to more than 20%, there are physical limits that make it difficult to further increase their performance. A research team from Link\u00f6ping University in Sweden, the University of Potsdam, the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin and other collaborators has now demonstrated which physical processes limit a key [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}