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Title: | Maximizing the short circuit current of organic solar cells by partial decoupling of electrical and optical properties | Authors: | Qurony, W Hossain, MI Jovanov, V Knipp, D Tsang, YH |
Issue Date: | Mar-2018 | Source: | Applied nanoscience, Mar. 2018, v. 8, no. 3, p. 339-346 | Abstract: | The partial decoupling of electronic and optical properties of organic solar cells allows for realizing solar cells with increased short circuit current and energy conversion efficiency. The proposed device consists of an organic solar cell conformally prepared on the surface of an array of single and double textured pyramids. The device geometry allows for increasing the optical thickness of the organic solar cell, while the electrical thickness is equal to the nominal thickness of the solar cell. By increasing the optical thickness of the solar cell, the short circuit current is distinctly increased. The quantum efficiency and short circuit current are determined using finite-difference time-domain simulations of the 3D solar cell structure. The influence of different solar cell designs on the quantum efficiency and short circuit current is discussed and optimal device dimensions are proposed. | Keywords: | FDTD Light trapping Organic solar cells Pyramid texture Solar cell |
Publisher: | Springer | Journal: | Applied nanoscience | ISSN: | 2190-5509 | EISSN: | 2190-5517 | DOI: | 10.1007/s13204-018-0713-0 | Rights: | © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The following publication Qarony, W., Hossain, M.I., Jovanov, V. et al. Maximizing the short circuit current of organic solar cells by partial decoupling of electrical and optical properties. Appl Nanosci 8, 339–346 (2018) is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-018-0713-0. |
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