Surface Plasmon Enhanced Infrared Absorption in the Sensitized Polymer Solar Cell

Sungmo Ahn; Devin Rourke; Alexandre M. Nardes; Jao Van De Lagemaat; Nikos Kopidakis; Wounjhang Park

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925451

Surface Plasmon Enhanced Infrared Absorption in the Sensitized Polymer Solar Cell

Sungmo Ahn, Devin Rourke, Alexandre M. Nardes, Jao Van De Lagemaat, Nikos Kopidakis, Wounjhang Park

Chemistry and Nanoscience

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Abstract

We have theoretically demonstrated an enhanced infrared absorption of the sensitizer in ternary polymer solar cell by introducing silver gratings at the back metal electrode. A combined model which incorporates the complex optical absorption profile and the electrical transport of the generated charge carriers was successfully developed. Using this model, we considered Si-PCPDTBT as an infrared sensitizer for P3HT:ICBA bulk heterojunction solar cells. A silver grating feature was optimized to produce a highly localized optical field inside the active polymer layer and enhance the infrared absorption of the sensitizer. Finally, an overall short-circuit current enhancement of about 40% is obtained theoretically.

Original language	American English
Pages	2554-2556
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925451 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925451
State	Published - 15 Oct 2014
Event	40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014 - Denver, United States Duration: 8 Jun 2014 → 13 Jun 2014

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Conference	40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	8/06/14 → 13/06/14

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NREL/CP-5900-62178

Keywords

polymer solar cell
sensitizer
surface plasmon resonance
ternary polymer solar cell

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