Issue 6, 2015
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Energy & Environmental Science

Design of a versatile interconnecting layer for highly efficient series-connected polymer tandem solar cells†

Lijian Zuo,ab   Chih-Yu Chang,bc   Chu-Chen Chueh,b   Shuhua Zhang,a   Hanying Li,a   Alex K.-Y. Jen*ab  and  Hongzheng Chen*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
E-mail: hzchen@zju.edu.cn, ajen@uw.edu

b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

c Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Abstract

A versatile interconnecting layer (ICL) based on reflective ultra-thin Ag (8–14 nm) was developed to enable the fabrication of a series-connected micro-cavity tandem polymer solar cell. This novel ICL can manipulate the optical field distribution between the constituent sub-cells to address the challenge of current matching. As a result, a very high power conversion efficiency (∼11%) and high summed external quantum efficiency of >90% were demonstrated.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5EE00633C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Feb 2015
Accepted
01 May 2015
First published
05 May 2015

Energy Environ. Sci., 2015,8, 1712-1718

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Design of a versatile interconnecting layer for highly efficient series-connected polymer tandem solar cells

L. Zuo, C. Chang, C. Chueh, S. Zhang, H. Li, A. K.-Y. Jen and H. Chen, Energy Environ. Sci., 2015, 8, 1712 DOI: 10.1039/C5EE00633C

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