Journal
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 3, Issue 5, Pages 666-673Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201200726
Keywords
high-efficiency polymer solar cells; plasmonics; light trapping; gold nanoparticles; interfacial layer; low band-gap polymers
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0120967]
- AFOSR [FA9550-09-1-0426]
- ONR [N00014-11-1-0300]
- AOARD [FA2386-11-1-4072]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50990063, 51011130028]
- China Scholarship Council
- National Science Council of Taiwan [NSC100-2917-I-564-031]
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Significantly increased power conversion efficiency (PCE) of polymer solar cells (PSCs) is achieved by applying a plasmonic enhanced light trapping strategy to a low bandgap conjugated polymer, poly(indacenodithiophene- co-phananthrene-quinoxaline) (PIDT-PhanQ) and [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) based bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) system. By doping both the rear and front charge-selecting interfacial layers of the device with different sizes of Au NPs, the PCE of the devices is improved from 6.65% to 7.50% (13% enhancement). A detailed study of processing, characterization, microscopy, and device fabrication is conducted to understand the underlying mechanism for the enhanced device performance. The success of this work provides a simple and generally applicable approach to enhance light harnessing of low bandgap polymers in PSCs.
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