Photovoltaic Performance of Polymer-Based Solar Cells with Non-Fullerene Acceptors

Dieter Neher studied physics at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. He gained his PhD with Prof. Dr. Wegner at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz. From 1990-1992 he was postdoc with Prof. G. Stegeman at the Optical Sciences Centre in Tuscon and at the Centre for Research in Electrooptics and Lasers in Orlando. He joined again the group of Prof. G. Wegner as a group leader, with focus on electrooptical phenomena in polymers. He entered his current position as Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Institute for Physics at the University of Potsdam in November 1998.

 

Current research interests are the optical, electrical and optoelectronic properties of polymers, with special focus on multicomponent systems with well-controlled structural characteristics.

The group "Physics of Soft Matter" of Prof. Dr. Dieter Neher at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Potsdam currently comprises ca. twenty scientists, PhD students, Diploma-students and technicians. Current fields of research are high-efficiency polymer light-emitting diodes, organic field-effect transistors from soluble organic semiconductors and polymer-based solar cells. It is a major goal of the group to control the complex morphology of the active material, hereby gaining a detailed understanding of the physical properties determining the device performance.