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Spontaneous formation of light-trapping nano-structures for top-illumination organic solar cells

Zheng-Yu Huang,a  Si-Wen Chiu,a  Chang-Wen Chen,a  Yi-Hong Chen,a  Li-Yen Lin,b  Ken-Tsung Wongbc  and  Hao-Wu Lin*a 
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a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan
E-mail: hwlin@mx.nthu.edu.tw

b Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

c Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract

By introduction of nano-structured crystallite capping layers, the power conversion efficiency of top-illumination organic solar cells is improved from 4.2 ± 0.1% to 6.0 ± 0.2%, representing a 44% enhancement. This is caused by the increase in JSC and led by the enhancement in the local E distribution inside the active layers. Comprehensive finite-difference time domain simulation reveals two main reasons for this enhancement: (1) the nano-structured capping layers can be treated as gradient-index films that effectively increase the light entering the devices. (2) The nano-structured capping layers can also diffract the light from original normal-incident paths, hence increasing the absorption length inside the active layers.

Graphical abstract: Spontaneous formation of light-trapping nano-structures for top-illumination organic solar cells

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The article was received on 24 Oct 2013, accepted on 02 Dec 2013 and first published on 05 Dec 2013


Article type: Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05674K
Citation: Nanoscale, 2014,6, 2316-2320
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    Spontaneous formation of light-trapping nano-structures for top-illumination organic solar cells

    Z. Huang, S. Chiu, C. Chen, Y. Chen, L. Lin, K. Wong and H. Lin, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 2316
    DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05674K

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