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.
near field enhancement
scattering
photovoltaics
surface plasmons
nanosphere lithography
absorption enhancement
photovoltaic devices
absorption enhancement
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 (SSIF 2011)
Environmental Engineering
DOI
10.1002/aenm.201200289