High-Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells Achieved by Doping Plasmonic Metallic Nanoparticles into Dual Charge Selecting Interfacial Layers to Enhance Light Trapping

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 666-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Yang ◽  
Chu-Chen Chueh ◽  
Chang-Zhi Li ◽  
Hin-Lap Yip ◽  
Peipei Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Metallic Nanoparticles ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Light Trapping ◽  
Interfacial Layers

Progress in Plasmonic Enhanced Bulk Heterojunction Organic/Polymer Solar Cells

2014 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 117-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.K. Tripathi ◽  
Sheenam Sachdeva ◽  
Kriti Sharma ◽  
Jagdish Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Metallic Nanoparticles ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Light Trapping ◽  
Polymer Materials ◽  
Organic Polymer ◽  
Manufacturing Costs ◽  
Conversion Efficiencies

To reduce the cost of solar electricity, there is an enormous potential of thin-film photovoltaic technologies. An approach for lowering the manufacturing costs of solar cells is to use organic (polymer) materials that can be processed under less demanding conditions. Organic/polymer solar cells have many intrinsic advantages, such as their light weight, flexibility, and low material and manufacturing costs. But reduced thickness comes at the expense of performance. However, thin photoactive layers are widely used, but light-trapping strategies, due to the embedding of plasmonic metallic nanoparticles have been shown to be beneficial for a better optical absorption in polymer solar cells. This article reviews the different plasmonic effects occurring due to the incorporation of metallic nanoparticles in the polymer solar cell. It is shown that a careful choice of size, concentration and location of plasmonic metallic nanoparticles in the device result in an enhancement of the power conversion efficiencies, when compared to standard organic solar cell devices.Contents of Paper

scholarly journals Novel semi-analytical optoelectronic modeling based on homogenization theory for realistic plasmonic polymer solar cells

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Arefinia ◽  
Dip Prakash Samajdar
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layer ◽  
Analytical Modeling ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Scattered Light ◽  
Homogenization Theory ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Coupled Equations ◽  
Long Time

AbstractNumerical-based simulations of plasmonic polymer solar cells (PSCs) incorporating a disordered array of non-uniform sized plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) impose a prohibitively long-time and complex computational demand. To surmount this limitation, we present a novel semi-analytical modeling, which dramatically reduces computational time and resource consumption and yet is acceptably accurate. For this purpose, the optical modeling of active layer-incorporated plasmonic metal NPs, which is described by a homogenization theory based on a modified Maxwell–Garnett-Mie theory, is inputted in the electrical modeling based on the coupled equations of Poisson, continuity, and drift–diffusion. Besides, our modeling considers the effects of absorption in the non-active layers, interference induced by electrodes, and scattered light escaping from the PSC. The modeling results satisfactorily reproduce a series of experimental data for photovoltaic parameters of plasmonic PSCs, demonstrating the validity of our modeling approach. According to this, we implement the semi-analytical modeling to propose a new high-efficiency plasmonic PSC based on the PM6:Y6 PSC, having the highest reported power conversion efficiency (PCE) to date. The results show that the incorporation of plasmonic NPs into PM6:Y6 active layer leads to the PCE over 18%.

High-efficiency ternary polymer solar cells with optimized morphology of active layers enabled by few-layered β-InSe nanosheets

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 6871-6883
Author(s):  
Jianming Wang ◽  
Huangzhong Yu ◽  
Chunli Hou
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layers ◽  
Ternary Polymer ◽  
First Time

Herein, few-layered β-InSe nanosheets are introduced into the active layers of polymer solar cells as morphological modifiers for the first time. 

High Efficiency (15.8%) All-Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by a Regioregular Narrow Bandgap Polymer Acceptor

2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (7) ◽  
pp. 2665-2670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiting Fu ◽  
Yuxiang Li ◽  
Jianwei Yu ◽  
Ziang Wu ◽  
Qunping Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Narrow Bandgap ◽  
Polymer Acceptor

High-efficiency ITO-free polymer solar cells using highly conductive PEDOT:PSS/surfactant bilayer transparent anodes

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenfeng Zhang ◽  
Baofeng Zhao ◽  
Zhicai He ◽  
Xuemei Zhao ◽  
Haitao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells

High-Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Environment-Friendly Single-Solvent Processing

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1502177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Zhang ◽  
Huifeng Yao ◽  
Wenchao Zhao ◽  
Long Ye ◽  
Jianhui Hou
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Solvent Processing

New Light Management Concepts for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

2008 ◽  
Vol 1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Stiebig ◽  
Christian Haase ◽  
Silvia Jorke ◽  
Philipp Obermeyer ◽  
Etienne Moulin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Metallic Nanoparticles ◽  
Light Propagation ◽  
Light Trapping ◽  
Cell Structure ◽  
Thin Film Silicon ◽  
Diffractive Element ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Light Management

AbstractAn efficient utilization of the sun spectrum is a key issue in the field of thin-film silicon solar cell technology. Therefore, different strategies for enhanced light absorption were presented in the last years. In order to achieve a better understanding of light scattering at nanotextured interfaces the optical properties of a large variety of samples were studied. The angle resolved scattering behavior was analyzed by means of a developed ray tracing model. As an alternative to randomly textured substrates, the influence of periodically textured substrates on the light propagation in solar cells was experimentally and numerically studied with respect to improved light in-coupling and light trapping. Based on a deeper understanding a new tandem cell structure with a diffractive element between the top and bottom cell was developed. Finally, the influence of metallic nanoparticles on the cell performance was studied.

Ester side chains engineered quinoxaline based D-A copolymers for high-efficiency all-polymer solar cells

2021 ◽  
pp. 132551
Author(s):  
Liang Zeng ◽  
Ruijie Ma ◽  
Zhongxin Zhou ◽  
Tao Liu ◽  
Yiqun Xiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Side Chains

A Polymer Acceptor Containing B←N Unit for 14% Efficiency All-Polymer Solar Cells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Liu ◽  
Yinghui Wang ◽  
Ning Wang ◽  
Qingqing Yang ◽  
Jidong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Polymer Acceptor

The development of all polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) is limited by the lack of polymer acceptors. An effective strategy to design high-efficiency polymer acceptors is to copolymerize small molecular acceptors...

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