Effect of Organically-Modified Titania Nanoparticles on the Performance of Poly(3-hexythiophene): PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

2014 ◽  
Vol 1668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun Young Park ◽  
Haeng Hee Ahn ◽  
Jiyeon Yoon ◽  
Sang Yong Kim ◽  
Bora Hwang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layer ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Titania Nanoparticles ◽  
Localized Surface Plasmon ◽  
Shunt Resistance ◽  
Organically Modified

ABSTRACTThe modified TiO2 nanoparticles were incorporated into the Bulk heterojunction system of P3HT:PCBM to improve the performance of P3HT:PCBM bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. The organically-modified TiO2 nanoparticle compounds were synthesized in aqueous media at room temperature. These TiO2 compounds in various solution concentrations were deposited on the top of the P3HT:PCBM active layer by spin coating. The performance of organic solar cells was carefully investigated in the respect of the scattering and the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) that couple strongly to the incident light. In addition to the device, P3HT:PCBM solar cells with the use of the TiO2 nanoparticles, enhanced Fill Factor (FF) due mainly to improved shunt resistance (Rsh). The TiO2 plays a critical role in improving the interface between P3HT:PCBM active layer and Al electrode.

scholarly journals Effects of Nanoimprinted Structures on the Performance of Organic Solar Cells

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hardeep Singh Gill ◽  
Lian Li ◽  
Haizhou Ren ◽  
Ravi Mosurkal ◽  
Jayant Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layer ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Heterojunction Solar Cells ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
Carrier Collection ◽  
Conversion Efficiencies

The effect of nanoimprinted structures on the performance of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells was investigated. The nanostructures were formed over the active layer employing the soft lithographic technique. The measured incident photon-to-current efficiency revealed that the nanostructured morphology over the active layer can efficiently enhance both light harvesting and charge carrier collection due to improvement of the absorption of incident light and the buried nanostructured cathode, respectively. The devices prepared with the imprinted nanostructures exhibited significantly higher power conversion efficiencies as compared to those of the control cells.

scholarly journals Effects of Ag Nanocubes with Different Corner Shape on the Absorption Enhancement in Organic Solar Cells

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Shan ◽  
Tong Zhang ◽  
Sheng-Qing Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layer ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Field Enhancement ◽  
Localized Surface Plasmon ◽  
Absorption Enhancement ◽  
Absorption Performance ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
Ag Ncs ◽  
Metallic Region

The effects of corner shape of silver (Ag) nanocubes (NCs) on optical absorptions of organic solar cells (OSCs) are theoretically investigated by finite element method (FEM) calculations. The absorption of sun light in the active layer is calculated. Significant absorption enhancements have been demonstrated in metallic region with different shapes of Ag NCs, among them corner radius (R) is zero result in the best light absorption performance of up to 55% enhancement with respect to bare OSCs. The origins of increased absorption are believed to be the effects of the huge electric field enhancement and increased scattering upon the excitation of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). Apart from usingR=0, we show thatR=3, 6, and 11.29 of Ag NCs in metallic region of active layer may also result in the maximum comparable absorption enhancement of 49%, 41%, and 28%, respectively. In addition, a significant effect of the period of NCs is observed.

Internal nanoscale architecture and charge carrier dynamics of wide bandgap non-fullerene bulk heterojunction active layers in organic solar cells

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 23628-23636
Author(s):  
Xinyu Jiang ◽  
Hongwon Kim ◽  
Peter S. Deimel ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Wei Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Charge Carrier ◽  
Active Layer ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Wide Bandgap ◽  
Carrier Dynamics ◽  
Charge Carrier Dynamics ◽  
Active Layers ◽  
Solvent Additive

The nanoscale architecture of active layer based on wide bandgap non-fullerene solar cells exhibits pronounced influence by the solvent additive.

Enhanced conduction and charge-selectivity by N-doped graphene flakes in the active layer of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 3000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwang Hoon Jun ◽  
Sung Hwan Jin ◽  
Bin Lee ◽  
Bo Hyun Kim ◽  
Weon-Sik Chae ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layer ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Charge Selectivity ◽  
Graphene Flakes ◽  
Doped Graphene

scholarly journals Morphology versus Vertical Phase Segregation in Solvent Annealed Small Molecule Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kovalenko ◽  
Darina Stoyanova ◽  
Jan Pospisil ◽  
Ivaylo Zhivkov ◽  
Ladislav Fekete ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecules ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Phase Segregation ◽  
Shunt Resistance ◽  
Solvent Annealing ◽  
High Fullerene ◽  
Capacitance Voltage ◽  
Harvesting Efficiency

The deep study of solvent annealed small molecules bulk heterojunction organic solar cells based on DPP(TBFu)2 : PC60BM blend is carried out. To reveal the reason of the solvent annealing advantage over the thermal one, capacitance-voltage measurements were applied. It was found that controlling the vertical phase segregation in the solar cells a high fullerene population in the vicinity of the cathode could be achieved. This results in increase of the shunt resistance of the cell, thus improving the light harvesting efficiency.

scholarly journals Pseudo-bilayer architecture enables high-performance organic solar cells with enhanced exciton diffusion length

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kui Jiang ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Zhengxing Peng ◽  
Francis Lin ◽  
Shengfan Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layer ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Diffusion Length ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Exciton Diffusion ◽  
Exciton Diffusion Length

AbstractSolution-processed organic solar cells (OSCs) are a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaic technologies. However, the short exciton diffusion length of the bulk heterojunction active layer in OSCs strongly hampers the full potential to be realized in these bulk heterojunction OSCs. Herein, we report high-performance OSCs with a pseudo-bilayer architecture, which possesses longer exciton diffusion length benefited from higher film crystallinity. This feature ensures the synergistic advantages of efficient exciton dissociation and charge transport in OSCs with pseudo-bilayer architecture, enabling a higher power conversion efficiency (17.42%) to be achieved compared to those with bulk heterojunction architecture (16.44%) due to higher short-circuit current density and fill factor. A certified efficiency of 16.31% is also achieved for the ternary OSC with a pseudo-bilayer active layer. Our results demonstrate the excellent potential for pseudo-bilayer architecture to be used for future OSC applications.

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