Design of Transparent Anodes for Resonant Cavity Enhanced Light Harvesting in Organic Solar Cells
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Sergeant, Nicholas P.Hadipour, Afshin
Niesen, Bjoern
Cheyns, David
Heremans, Paul
Peumans, Peter
Rand, Barry P.
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KUS-C1-015-21Date
2012-01-03Online Publication Date
2012-01-03Print Publication Date
2012-02-07Permanent link to this record
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The use of an ITO-free MoO 3/Ag/MoO 3 anode to control the photon harvesting in PCDTBT:PC 70BM solar cells is proposed. At first sight, the fact that these anodes possess reduced far-field transmission compared to ITO may seem to be a disadvantage. But, despite this, we show that by carefully tuning the resonant optical cavity we can enhance the external quantum efficiency close to the band edge of PCDTBT, resulting in high photocurrent and power conversion efficiency on par with ITO. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Citation
Sergeant NP, Hadipour A, Niesen B, Cheyns D, Heremans P, et al. (2012) Design of Transparent Anodes for Resonant Cavity Enhanced Light Harvesting in Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials 24: 728–732. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201104273.Sponsors
We would like to thank St Jean Photochemicals (Montreal, CA, USA) for providing the PCDTBT polymer. This publication was partially based on work supported by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (CAMP) (Award No KUS-C1-015-21), made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The authors thank Prof. M.D. McGehee, Dr. P. Catrysse and Prof. S. Fan for insightful discussions. N.P.S. acknowledges the financial support as a Francqui fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.Publisher
WileyJournal
Advanced MaterialsPubMed ID
22213161ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/adma.201104273
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