Nanohole design for high performance polymer solar cell

Author

Rahman, Doha M. A. ; Hameed, Mohamed Farhat O. ; Obayya, Salah S. A.

Author_Institution

Center for Photonics & Smart Mater., Zewail City of Sci. & Technol., Giza, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

1-4 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

58

Abstract

A novel design of nanohole polymer solar cell (NHPSC) is reported for light trapping improvement. The proposed design has shown a considerable enhancement in the optical and electrical parameters of the polymer solar cell based on a conventional blend of poly-3-hexylthiophene/ [6, 6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PCBM) as an active material. In this study, 3D finite difference time domain method is used to simulate the light absorption in the nanohole structure. In addition, an electrical model is developed to calculate the electrical parameters of the polymer solar cell. The reported design has shown 28% improvement in short circuit current density and overall efficiency alike.

Keywords

current density; finite difference time-domain analysis; light absorption; polymers; short-circuit currents; solar cells; 3D finite difference time domain method; NHPSC; P3HT:PCBM; electrical model; electrical parameters; high performance polymer solar cell; light absorption; light trapping improvement; nanohole design; nanohole polymer solar cell; nanohole structure; optical parameters; poly-3-hexylthiophene-[6, 6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester; short circuit current density; Absorption; Finite difference methods; Numerical models; Optical polymers; Photovoltaic cells; nanohole; opto-electrical model; solar cell;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2014 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palma de Mallorca

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3681-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2014.6935354

Filename

6935354