Plasmonic Efficiency Enhancement of High Performance Organic Solar Cells with a Nanostructured Rear Electrode
Journal article, 2013
A strategy and implementation for efficiency enhancement of optimized high performance organic solar cells by a plasmonic nanostructured Ag rear electrode is presented. This enhancement is achieved by tuning the surface plasmon resonance of the nanostructures to the active layer absorption tail, which generates enhanced absorption by light scattering, as verified by experiment and simulation. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH and Co.
nanosphere lithography
surface plasmons
absorption enhancement
scattering
absorption enhancement
near field enhancement
photovoltaic devices
photovoltaics
Author
B. Niesen
Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center at Leuven
B. P. Rand
Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center at Leuven
P. Van Dorpe
Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center at Leuven
D. Cheyns
KU Leuven
Lianming Tong
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Bionanophotonics
Alexander Dmitriev
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Bionanophotonics
P. Heremans
KU Leuven
Advanced Energy Materials
1614-6832 (ISSN) 1614-6840 (eISSN)
Vol. 3 2 145-150Subject Categories
Environmental Engineering
DOI
10.1002/aenm.201200289