Performance Improvement of Polymer Based Solar Cell by Ordered Nano-Morphology

Author

Ray, Biswajit ; Khan, Mohammad Ryyan ; Alam, Muhammad A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

June 28 2010-July 1 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Polymer based organic solar cell offers a relatively inexpensive option for the future solar cell technology, provided its efficiency increases beyond the current limit of 4-6%. In this paper, we use the process and device models to explore the possibility of the efficiency improvement of the solar cell by ordered active layer morphology, obtained through template based fabrication technique. Our analysis shows that ordered morphology improves both photon collection as well as carrier transport and hence promises to double the cell efficiency.

Keywords

nanofabrication; photons; polymers; solar cells; nanofabrication; nanomorphology; ordered active layer morphology; organic solar cells; performance improvement; photon collection; polymers; Annealing; Charge carriers; Electrodes; Equations; Excitons; Morphology; Photovoltaic cells; Polymers; Separation processes; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro/Nano Symposium (UGIM), 2010 18th Biennial University/Government/Industry

Conference_Location

West Lafayette, IN

ISSN

0749-6877

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4731-2

Electronic_ISBN

0749-6877

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UGIM.2010.5508895

Filename

5508895