Accurate Measurement and Characterization of Organic Solar Cells

Vishal Shrotriya, Gang Li, Yan Yao, Tom Moriarty, Keith Emery, Yang Yang

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Abstract

Methods to accurately measure the current-voltage characteristics of organic solar cells under standard reporting conditions are presented. Four types of organic test cells and two types of silicon reference cells (unfiltered and with a KG5 color filter) are selected to calculate spectral-mismatch factors for different test-cell/reference-cell combinations. The test devices include both polymer/fullerene-based bulk-heterojunction solar cells and small-molecule-based heterojunction solar cells. The spectral responsivities of test cells are measured as per American Society for Testing and Materials Standard E1021, and their dependence on light-bias intensity is reported. The current-voltage curves are measured under 100 mWcm-2 standard AM 1.5 G (AM: air mass) spectrum (International Electrotechnical Commission 69094-1) generated from a source set with a reference cell and corrected for spectral error.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)2016-2023
Number of pages8
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume16
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-520-39520

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