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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 27, Issue 22, Pages 31599-31620Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.031599
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- Defence Research and Development Organisation [RPO3356]
- Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology [RPO2829, RPO3150]
- Science and Engineering Research Board [RP03055]
- Ministry of Human Resource Development [RP03417G, RP03246G]
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In this paper, we propose double junction tandem organic solar cells with PTB7:PC70BM and PDPPSDTPS:PC60BM as the polymeric active materials to cover the wide solar spectrum from 300 nm to 1150 nm. We present novel designs and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation results of plasmonic double junction tandem OSCs in which Ag nanospheres are present over the top surface of the OSC and Ag nanostars are present in the bottom subcell which substantially enhance the absorption, short circuit current density, and efficiency of the OSC as compared to the reference tandem OSCs that do not contain any nanoparticles. Different geometries of the plasmonic nanoparticles such as nanospheres and nanostars were used in the top subcell and the bottom subcell, respectively, so that the absorption in the different spectral regimes - corresponding to the bandgaps of the active layers in the two subcells (PTB7:PC70BM in the top subcell and LBG:PC60BM in the bottom subcell) - could be enhanced. The thickness of the bottom subcell active layer as well as the geometries of the plasmonic nanoparticles were optimized such that the short circuit current densities in the two subcells could be matched in the tandem OSC. An overall enhancement of 26 % in the short circuit current density was achieved in a tandem OSC containing the optimized Ag nanospheres over the top surface and Ag nanostars inside the bottom subcell active layer. The presence of plasmonic nanoparticles along with the wide spectrum absorption band of the active materials in the tandem OSC leads to a typical power conversion efficiency of similar to 15.4%, which is higher than that of a reference tandem organic solar cell (12.25%) that does not contain any nanoparticles. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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