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Local surface plasmon resonance assisted energy harvesting in thin film organic solar cells

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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
卷 856, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.158172

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Plasmon; Nano-particles; Solar energy

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  1. National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa [93562, 92786, 85589]

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The study found that adding nickel sulfide nanoparticles to thin film organic solar cells can significantly improve the performance of the solar cells, especially when the NiS concentration is 1%, the power conversion efficiency of the solar cells increases by 93%. The incorporation of nickel sulfide nanoparticles promotes the dissociation of excitons and charge transportation processes, resulting in enhanced short circuit current and PCE.
Nickel sulfide(NiS) nano-particles are used in the solar absorber medium of thin film organic solar cell (TFOSC) to aid in harvesting solar energy. Solution-processed TFOSCs were fabricated using poly-3-hexylthiophene (P3HT) and (6-6) phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) blend photo-active layer with or without NiS nano-particles(NPs). The new solar cells showed enhanced opto-electronic properties by the incorporation of NPs. The experimental data suggest that the device performances have been influenced by the concentration of NiS nano-particles in the absorber layer. Consequently, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the solar cell has improved by 93% from the reference cell, at 1% optimum concentration of NiS by weight. The best PCE recorded in this investigation was 4.63%, which is an important development in an ambient environment preparation condition. The effect of the metal nano-particles clearly demonstrated in this investigation in terms of enhanced short circuit current (J(SC)) and PCE, which are an indicators of improved exciton dissociation and charge transportation processes in the medium. The results will be discussed by way of optical and electrical properties of the solar absorber films. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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