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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2009, Article ID 581068, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2009/581068 Research Article Squaraine Planar-Heterojunction Solar Cells Bin Fan, Ylenia Maniglio, Marina Simeunovic, Simon Kuster, Thomas Geiger, ¨ Roland Hany, and Frank Nuesch Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, EMPA, Ueberlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dubendorf, Switzerland ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Bin Fan, bin.fan@empa.ch Received 10 April 2009; Accepted 2 June 2009 Recommended by Mohamed Sabry Abdel-Mottaleb The photovoltaic performance of squaraine-based organic solar cells is investigated. Two squaraine derivatives with extraordinarily high extinction coefficients are used as electron donors in bilayer heterojunctions with fullerene C60 as electron acceptor. Due to the very strong squaraine absorption band in the red spectral domain, antibatic behavior due to light filtering is observed in the photocurrent spectrum for film thicknesses of 35 nm to 40 nm. At reduced film thicknesses of 20 nm, this filtering effect at maximum absorption can be alleviated and power conversion efficiencies under simulated AM 1.5 full sun irradiation of 0.59% and 1.01% are obtained for the two squaraine derivatives, respectively. The photovoltaic properties of these cells are investigated with respect to electrode materials and chemical doping. Copyright © 2009 Bin Fan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the origin