Plasmonic organic solar cell employing Au NP:PEDOT:PSS doped rGO

Seung Joo Lee; Jae-Yeon Kim; Abd. Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff; Jin Jang

doi:10.1039/C5RA02878G

Plasmonic organic solar cell employing Au NP:PEDOT:PSS doped rGO

Seung Joo Lee,^a Jae-Yeon Kim,^a Abd. Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff^a and Jin Jang*^a

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^a Department of Information, Display and Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemun-ku, Seoul 130-171, Republic of Korea
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Abstract

We demonstrate the first facile synthetic process to prepare a highly promising composite material by combining our frequently used p-type conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO), and further employed the composite as a hole transport layer (HTL) in plasmonic organic solar cells. The conductivity of the PEDOT:PSS:rGO mixture can be tuned by varying the concentration of rGO in the PEDOT:PSS solution. Ultimately, the integration of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in the PEDOT:PSS:rGO plasmonic organic solar cell demonstrated a 9.34% improvement in the power conversion efficiency (PCE), measured using an AM1.5 G solar simulator at 100 mW cm⁻² light illumination intensity to generate localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). The enhanced performance was caused by local enrichment of the electromagnetic field surrounding the Au NPs.

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The article was received on 14 Feb 2015, accepted on 24 Feb 2015 and first published on 24 Feb 2015

Article type: Paper

DOI: 10.1039/C5RA02878G

Citation: RSC Adv., 2015,5, 23892-23899

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S. J. Lee, J. Kim, Abd. R. B. Mohd Yusoff and J. Jang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 23892
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA02878G
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