The construction of a polymer solar cell that can successfully collect an electron and hole for almost every incident photon suggests that great improvements in the efficiency of organic photovoltaics should be possible.
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McGehee, M. Overcoming recombination. Nature Photon 3, 250–252 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.54
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