期刊
ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
卷 29, 期 -, 页码 79-87出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.11.015
关键词
Organic solar cell; Ag & Au nanostructures; UV-Vis absorption; P3HT:PCBM; LSPR; Mie scattering
资金
- Solar Energy Research Initiative (SERI) program of Department of Science and Technology (DST), India [DST/TM/SERI/2k12/21]
- Erasmus Mundus Student Exchange program
Inefficient light absorption and inefficient charge separation are considered as two major impediments for the efficiency improvement in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (BHJ OSCs). In this work, we report the simultaneous role of modified electron transport layer (ETL) and photoactive layers on the performance of poly (3-hexylthiophene), [6, 6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT: PCBM) BHJ OSCs. To modify the ETL, composite of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) (0.4 wt %) and ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) was used, which resulted in efficiency enhancement from 3.13 to 3.81%, as compared to a value of 3.13% when only ZnO was used. Thereafter, to improve upon the optical absorption properties, the photoactive layer is modified by embedding nanoparticles and nanorods of Ag and Au into it. The size of Ag and Au nanoparticles were chosen to be 50 nm while the dimensions of Ag and Au nanorods were so controlled to obtain length of approx. 50 nm and width of similar to 10 nm. All the devices were fabricated in inverted geometry and 20 wt% nanostructures embedded devices showed the best results. For Ag and Au NPs embedded devices, the, maximum power conversion efficiency was found to be 4.21% and 4.44%, respectively. On the other hand, for Ag and Au NRs embedded devices, the maximum efficiency was 437% and 4.85%, respectively. For comparison, the control devices where no nanostructures were embedded, which shows efficiency of 3.81%. Therefore, an overall enhancement in efficiency was nearly 1.21 and 1.1, 1.16, 1.14, 1.27 fold after modifying ETL as well as the active layer. The reasons for performance improvement were ascribed to better charge extraction properties of ETL, enhanced light absorption due to localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) and efficient light scattering by the nanostructures and improved global mobilities. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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